Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1879 — The Cholera in Japan. [ARTICLE]

The Cholera in Japan.

TheParisTemps give some particulars of ravages of cholera in Japan. The epidemic appeared last April in the district of Enime, where the tombs of sokliers who fell victims to it in 1877 had been opened, partly for religious rites and partly for the more becoming interment of men hastily buried during the war. In a week forty-five out of sixty-five cases proved fatal. It extended to other points, and at Osaka it to not uncommon to sea persons fall down in the streets, struck by it. In July it was reported at Tokio, the capital, and also at Yokohama, and in some western towns the epidemic assumed formidable proportions. Up to August 17 the total was 76,698, of which 41,916 had proved fatal, 9,789 had recovered, and the remainder woe still unde* treatment. Up to the end of September the number had reached 100.000. The Government bad exerted itself to the utmost by establishing hospitals, forbidding the sale of unripe fruit (which the Japanese accustomed ts eat), and quarantine regulations. These last were disregarded by foreign vessels, and the result is that the chplera has extended everywhere, so that there are no longer qnaratines or lazzrrettos, for no purpose would b served by them. Dr. William F. Sherrod, prison physician, who sued the Seymour Times for SIO,OOO for liebel, has instructed his attorney, Chas. L. Jewett, to withdraw the complaint. Dr. Monroe, editor of the Times, charged that Dr. Sherrod was cruel to the patients under his care, and reflected upon him in Other ways. Tbs Times agrees to pay all costs in the ease and to retract the libelous statement as to Dr. Sherrod's conduct as a gentleman and a phytosian.