Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1885 — Cholera. [ARTICLE]

Cholera.

Cholera cannot make a sea voyage of twenty days. If we could not cross the ocean from Europe in less time cholera would never reach uiß, There are unfavorable land routes. Cholera never gets over deserts which require more than twenty days for caravans to cross. South America enjoyed exemjy-t-ion from cholera until 1854, when fast sailing vessels carried it from Philadelphia to Bio Janeiro, and a terrible epidemic was the result. Cholera makes the most remarkable jumps. The soil and its moisture play a principal part in starting epidemics. Clay soil in relatively dry conditions is most likely to assist outbreaks of cholera,—Fax - '