Show CHOLERA AND THE temperature with the cholera epidemic raging in japan and china and spreading to russian territory and on the haud hand islands and the possibility of ito if entering this country through san ban francisco or some ome other pacific port it to la of interest to note that physicians at present no longer view the epidemic ept demlo with the apprehension that thai was noticeable not noti loable cable only a low few years year ago diphtheria and scarlet fever favor the say may are really more dangerous than cholera more difficult to cure curb and to tamp stamp out it li is contended that the cholera germ require a high temperature lor for successful propagation this state men jaent is borne out by the fact that H has haa become endemic only la in tropical or semitropical semi emt tropical countries and also alio that its ravages take lake place nearly always alway during be hot season eabon of the year I 1 11 i the great epidemic in now new york in 1866 during which there were 1800 deaths it broke ou on in may hut but not until july aud and august did the me death rate assume its iti large proportions during september the fatal cases became fewer and in october the disease was wa stamped out against the view that it to ia virtually virtual lj a ummer summer d dlease akande the record ol of dt petersburg Petera burg where during the winter with its ita intense cold the mortality was dreadful but it is ii pointed out that mat in the northern countries the houses are almost airtight and but 11 ill ventilated durigg the cold season so 0 o that the cholera germ was wag really kept alive in ID the warm impure atmosphere the old vew therefore that coid air UN bills the cholera germ la Is by high medical authority assumed to be correct |