Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1895 — RAVAGES OF THE CHOLERA. [ARTICLE]

RAVAGES OF THE CHOLERA.

Europe and Asia Have Suffered— America Has Been Free. Through the energetic efforts of the health authorities in New York the cholera has not entered this country-this summer and, as the season is so far advanced, it probably will not do so. Though we have been free from it in Europe Russia, Arabia, India, China, and Japan the disease raged. It is unfortunate that trustworthy statistics concerning it cannot be obtained from Russia, or from any of the other countries in which it exists, with the exception of Japan. It ravaged several of the western Russian ■provinces last summer; it did act entirely disappear last winter, and ifTias been epidemic since the early spring season. The cholera appeared in Arabia, on the border of the Red Sea, early in the spring, brought there, as in other years, by the Mohammedan pilgrims from India |to Mecca. Alarming accounts of'its fatality were sent out in the spring ‘months and up to June, but nothing has been heard of it for son|e weeks, and its ravages have doubtless been allayed. ' In China the extent to which the cholSe a has prevailed can only be guessed at, but it is believed that the disease has been widespread. From the trustworthy statistics kept by the Japanese authorities it is learned that up to the close of July there had been 9,500 cases of the disease in Japan, more than one-half of which had proved fatal. This fatality may be regarded as part of the price paid by Japan for her victory over the Chinese, but that price was greater yet, for many of the Japanese soldiers who are yet in China have fallen under the disease. It has recently been epidemic ever a large part of the Japanese empire. Ib some other countries besides those h*re mentioned, including Mexico and

Cuba, there have been ceaea of Atftnm during the year, bat it has not been epidemic in any of them. It haa been estimated by good author)tiea that the average yearly number of deaths from cholera the world over ia cloee upon a quarter of a million. It ia not known that in Rus<>ia alone laat year there were nearly 100,000 cases of the disease, about 45 per cent, of which proved fatal; but the ravages of the disease among the Russians are light as compared with that among Asiatics. Very likely it has been as widely prevalent in Western Russia, Eastern Austria and Turkey this year as it was last year.