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CHOLERA.
Among the deaths registered in 1892, were four attributed
to English Cholera or Choleraic Diarrhoea, the dates
of death being April 8th, July 22nd, July 30th, and September
8th. The deceased, aged respectively 24, 32, 40 and 58,
comprised three males—a wire-worker, a painter, and a
labourer—and one female, the wife of a postman. There was
nothing to distinguish these cases from those cases of English
Cholera which occur every year in small numbers; but the
case which occurred in September attracted some notice by
reason of the severity of the symptoms: the sufferer was a
man previously broken down in health. Three of the deaths
took place in the Parish Infirmary, the patients, all males,
having been removed thereto, from Bangor Street, Wornington
Road, and Swinbrook Road. The female died in her
home at St. Ervans Road.
Asiatic Cholera.— It became apparent at about the
middle of the year, that this dreaded disease had undoubtedly
extended to the confines of Eastern Europe; and in July a
good deal of alarm was excited on account of a number of
deaths that occurred in and near Paris, from diseases unquestionably
choleraic, but whether of the true Asiatic character
did not appear, our neighbours not having the English habit
of frankness in the disclosure of disagreeable facts. The
Local Government Board, taking into consideration that
"cases of an infectious disease alleged to be Cholera now
(July 11th) exist in certain parts of France," issued a General
Orderto Port and other Sanitary Authorities, forbidding the delivery
over-side, except for the purpose of export, or the landing
in any port or place in England, of rags from France—a course
which, taken with other facts, indicated the view of the Board
that, at least, precautionary measures were necessary if an
epidemic was to be averted. Before the end of the month
Cholera declared itself in many parts of Russia, to which
country it was limited for some little time, notwithstanding
disquieting rumours to the contrary from some of the Central