Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1913 — LIST OF CHOLERA SCOURGES [ARTICLE]

LIST OF CHOLERA SCOURGES

Terrible Plague Was Known as Early as the Year 767 B. C.. Declares London Writer. London.—The terrible ravages cbolera is making at the present tlihe in Turkey remind one of many previous occasions when epidemics have carried off thousands at a time, says Tit Bits. As early as 767 B. C. we read of a plague, and again in 453 B. C. Rome suffered terribly. Athens was attacked by a pestilence In 430 B. C, which was believed to have been caused by their enemies poisoning the water supplies. As many as 10,000 people a day fell victims to the plague at Rome in A. D. 80. So many people were killed during the epidemic which occurred In Bri Ijm during the fifth century that there were hardly sufficient persons left to bury the dead. In 772 Chichester lost 34,000 people, and in 954 Scotland lost 40,000. London was visited In the 10th and 11th .centuries, and Ireland suffered severely in 1204. The Oriental plague occurred between 1348 and 1382. It was known as the “Black Plague,” on account of the black spots which appeared on the skin at death. It started In China In 1333. and the deaths numbered 18.000,000, and 24,000.000 succumbed in the rest of Asia. It appeared In Norway and Sweden in 1349 and 1382. About 2,000,000 fell victims to the black plague In England, of which 52,000 occurred in London alone. The sweating sickness appeared In England fourtime# during the 15th and 16th centuriee. the flrat time In 1485, and lasted one month. In which 20,000 people died fas London alone. It also visited Holland, Germany. Denmark, Sweden, Poland and Russia between 1525 and 1530. In the 17th century a pestilence broke out in London and carried off 30.000 people. In Lyons 60,000 died during 1632 through a scourge which

swept over France. Italy lost 400.000 in six months In 1658. In the 17th century Holland was visited by a plague; in Leyden 13,000 died of It, and the following year 13.287 died In Amsterdam. It waa brought to London in bales of cotton by some Dutch merchants. This was the plague of London, and. as everyone knows, about 100,000 persons died In one year Persia lost 80,000 from a pestilence in 1773, and Egypt 800,000 during 1790. Epidemics of cholera appeared In France several times during the 19th century. In which 18.000 people died In Paris between March and August. 1832. It appeared in England in 1848 and 1849, carrying off 13.161 persons, and 5,000 persons were carried off In London in 1866 In fifteen weeksDuring recent years India has been heavily visited by plague—in Bombay, Northwest presidency, and Punjab, and a less degree In Burma, and other parts of India. In January. 1905, there was a weekly mortality of 20.000. reaching by steady Increase a total of 57,702. By April 1 It bad dropped to 4,000 weekly, but again reached 5,000 by the end of June. Two years after the number of victims amounted to as many as 1,316.000.