1865 Harper's Weekly - Marseilles - Crowds Dancing Away the Cholera Pandemic

Description: A full-page engraving, published in the Harper's Weekly magazine dated November 18, 1865 and entitled as follows: "Cholera at Marseilles - Fires lighted in the Square of the Old Palace of Justice to Destroy the Pestilence" - see below Good condition - the usual minor edge tears, creases, binding holes, mild damp staining etc. - see scan. Related text to the reverse - see scan. The best medical advice for clean Americans is to remain tranquil! This is an original antique print and not a reproduction . Great collectors items for the historian - see more of these in Seller's Other Items which can be combined for mailing. Note: International mailing in a tube is expensive - $16. The quoted international rate assumes the page is lightly folded and mailed in a reinforced envelope PARIS, Friday, Oct. 6, 1865.It appears now from further investigation that the few cases of cholera we are having at Paris may be linked to a woman who came from Marseilles, and who died almost immediately after arriving at Paris. This woman served as a germ of infection in the neighborhood in which she died, and from this neighborhood, which is inhabited exclusively by the poorer classes, all the cases come which have so far entered the hospitals. Nearly all of the cases have been treated at the Hospital Loriboisiere, in the neighborhood in which the disease was developed, but a few cases were carried to the Hotel Dieu and to La Pitie. I have seen the cases at the Hospital Lariboisiere, and they do not appear to be of a malignant type. Not more than half of them prove fatal, and for the kind of cases which generally find their way into hospitals this fact demonstrates the non-malignancy thus far of the disease. Moreover, but one case, as late as two days ago, had been communicated in the hospitals to patients ill with other diseases. No reports of the progress of the disease have yet been published, and nothing but vague references to the subject have been permitted by the authorities, but M. HUSSON, Director-General of the Hospitals of Paris, estimated the entire number of cases in the city and suburbs day before yesterday at seventy. This figure is but a bagatelle on a population of two millions; and as the temperature has descended very materially the last two days, there is a reasonable hope that the disease is not going to become general.The want of water at Paris has never been so great as at present The river has fallen so low that the ends of the water-pipes are above the surface of the water, and the authorities have been obliged to locate temporary engines along the river bank for the suction of water for the reservoirs. The streets are only sprinkled from 1 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and the hydrants are allowed to run only half the time they ran formerly. This state of things is calculated to excite uneasiness in the public mind; but the city, notwithstanding these inconveniences, never looked more cleanly or in better condition; and with the extensive precautions taken by the authorities in other respects, and especially in providing the poor with speedy relief in case of need, there is no reason for serious alarm.At Marseilles and Toulon it has at last commenced to rain, and the epidemic is rapidly declining. But the falling of rain is only, perhaps, a coincidence with the decline of the malady; for in the neighboring towns to Marseilles and Toulon, for a distance of forty miles, it has also rained, and the disease is on the increase.In the East, especially in Syria, where the poorer inhabitants believe that whatever misfortunes befall them are sent by Allah, and where, therefore, physicians are not employed, the cholera is making fearful ravages, without any hope of an amelioration until the natural food for its ravages is consumed.

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