Show CHOLERA MOVING WESTWARD ACCORDING to recent dispatches from france it is ie now conceded that asiatic cholera has obtained a foothold in paris A family of four persons died there yesterday of cholera and six others are known to be afflicted with the de fearful malady during buring the week twenty two deaths from cholera were reported within the city limits and eleven on the confines the busi business nebs and trade of the gay french capital are suffering buffering seriously from the panic occasioned by the presence of the dise disease aAe it is estimated that there are at least american tou tourists riots now in europe they are leaving out paris in their round of european cities this means a great loss lose to the traders of that city because the american custom lie ie looked for as one of the richest harvests reaped from tourist travel every courtr country in western central and southern europe to Is preparing for the dreaded scourge quarantines are being established sanitary regulations are being enforced and a 9 general beneral cleaning up is going coln 9 on cholera la Is something that is never dever spoken of with levity A great european authority says at one you see your child as blithe as an a bird at 2 it is seized with vomiting at 8 3 it to Is quite prostrated and almost voiceless voice leee at 4 you fail to recognize it and at 6 5 it I 1 is 0 quiet in death 12 unlike former epi epidemics demies of this kind the origin of the present cholera choler a affliction cannot be traced to india and the country adjacent to the lower ganges the plague of today seems to have begun on the confines of russia or in persia formerly bengal was the starting point traveling thence into persia thence to china and russia thence into northern and central europe and finally into england and america the fearful epidemic of 1826 originated in bengal moved westward as already stated reaching england in oct 1881 it spread over the british islands and in 1882 1832 over persons persona were carried off by it another outbreak originated in bengal in 1840 and finally reached england where it carried off some persons the first visit to the united states was in 1882 1832 the first cases appeared in quebec and montreal next in detroit from which place it spread over this his country there was no fourth of july celebration that year in 1849 60 50 there was a second outbreak there have been two other visitations of the disease in this country since but the evil effects were comparatively harmless it is supposed that owing to superior medical knowledge and sanitary science a cholera scourge at the present time is in denuded of its worst horrors |