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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m6thode. 1 2 3 4 5 6 ^iK«gii ^a«fefcs»^i^aife^iii 4ja 3 ^ifcc.at>'>a M [Im FROM From ] in the sp Quebec, C and had 1 Limerick, with 17 ( deaths; s All th( (jrosse Isl Lawrence and their treal on tl The firs boarding 1 boat, the ^ at Montre over this I St. Lawre single villi; foIloAving e the Voyag fishing on 'V [Finm TlIF I.KAVr.NWdllTII MkIII, AI. Ill KAI.J, f,,,- ( •clohcr, 1,S(I7. ^-o . "^ coxvl\ai\ce of cholera FROM IRELAND TO CANADA AND THE ( NITED STATES INDIAN TERRITORY, IN 1832. -.0^ By John C. Peters, M.D., of New York. From Dr. R. Nel.son"s account we select the following : Early m the spring of 1832 the following infected vessels arrived at Quebec, Canada : The ship Robert sailed from Cork on May 14th, and had 10 deaths from cholera ; the Constantia, April 28th from' Limerick, with 21> deaths ; the Elizabeth, May 28th, from Dublin ^vith 17 deaths : the Carrick, from Dublin, June 3d, with 4"^' deaths; ship Brubus, May 18th, from Liverpool, with 81 deaiis. ^ All these ships and their passengers were quarantined at (.rosse Isle, a few miles below Quebec. On June 7th the St Lawrence steamer Voyageur conveyed a load of these emi,n-ants and their baggage, some to Quebec and the majority to Mon- treal on the 10th. The first cases of cholera in America occurred in emi-^rant boarding houses in Quebec on the 8th, and the same pest sream- boat, the Voyageur, landed persons dead and dying of choler'i at Montreal, a distance of 200 miles, in less than 20 hours- and over this long distance, thickly inhabited on both shores of the St. Lawrence, cholera made a single leap, without infecting a single village, or a single house between the two cities, with the following exceptions : A man picked up a mattress thrown from the Voyageur, and he and his wife died of cholera ; another man fishing on the St. Lawrence was requested to bury a dead man -r ■■'f ijj. liT .^-A-^. \ s [ -^ 1 iVoin the Vcyagour, nn.l ho, \m ^vif.> nnd nopliow .lid. Tl.o ,.a,,tiiiu of a passing bout requostod an Indian to l.wry a man tv„in on bnar.l ; this and five otli^n- Indians wl>io attacked and ' "tI.o town of Throe Rivers, half way between Quebec an.l Montreal, forbid steamers to land and escaped for a lor.;^ tnmv From Montreal the great inlinx of emigrants was forwarded nway, by the Emigrant Society, as fast as they arrived, and by them the pestilence was sown at each stopping place. Kingston , Toronto an.l Niagara sooii became afleote.l. In the end over 40(10 persons die.l of cholera in Montreal, an.l m..re than an e.^iial number in Quebec. The epidemic quickly reached Detroit in the same way. From the United States Arn.y Report for 1832, pag.) 81, we learn : I. was at this period (Juno, 1832,) that Asiatic cholera made Us iirst appearan.^c on the n,.rtheast coast of America, and spread with fatal rapidity along the great water courses on our northen, iVontier, and continued west along the great lakes untd ni Sep- tember it reacbe.l some of our military posts on the upper Mis- sissippi. As the Sac and Fox Indians, headed by Black Hawk, were at this time in open hostility, our troops marching towards the theatre of war became exposed to the influence of the epl.lomi... Speaking of this event Major General Macomb ... bi.a,.nual report, says: Unfortunately, however U.e cholera was just at this time making its way into the United State, fro... Canada, and infected our troops while on boar.l the 8tea.nboat. in their passage up the lakes ; and such was the rap.Cty ^v.tb which this disease spread among them that, in a few days the ^vholc force se..t by the lakes was rendered incapable of taking the field. Some were landed, but the principal reached Chicago in a most deplorable condition. Six companies of artillery left Fortress Monroe, Virginia, in perfect health contracted th.. cholera at Detroit, and reached Chicago with a loss of one out of every three men. On pa-e 8G Ave read: Fort Dearborn, near Chicago, was tem- porarily re-occupied during the campaign against Black Hawk in 1832 an.l it was here that epidemic cholera displayed its :K b s 1 aied. Tlio nry a iiiiin tucked anil Quebec antl 11 lor.i^ time, s foi'wanU'il ,'C(1, anil l)y Kingston, lie cntl over jre than an way. From we learn : It ;ra maile its , and spread our northern until in Sop- } upper Mis- Black Hawk. :hing towards uenco of thi^ I Macomb, in , the cholera 3d Statea from le 8teamboat.< rapidity with few days, the ible of taking ached Chicago i artillery left jontracted the )S3 of one out cago, was tem- t Black Hawk a displayed its [ -^ 1 most Hital I'iViM'ts aiiMii;^ DiU' tr'»i>]>>. < )iit of liMdl hhmi over 2')t) casi's were ailmittcil into liisjiitals in the course of 7 or S days. Surgeon l)e(Jamp inclined to the opinion of its contagiousness, because ))revioMs to the anival of the steamlioat which brought the disease to l<'ort Dearborn, there had not been a ea.NC of di- ease of this kind a( the fort oi' in the village. When these troops again niarebeil for the Mississippi they ajipeari'd in perfet't health, yet it iiroke out again on the way, ami when the eoininand reached the Mississippi it became as fatal as it hail been at Fort Dearborn.