CHOLERA.
The ravages of this terrific plague during the year 1854 have been most frightful and widespread, and the prediction that "there shall be pestilences," seems to come home with ten-fold more power, now that so many other agents are executing their mission, and hurrying us forward with almost lightning speed, to the great crisis of the world's history. In the city of London alone, during the summer, ten thousand victims were swept away by the cholera. Multitudes have died in various parts of France from the same disease, and so great has been the terror, that public functionaries have fled from the towns with the inhabitants. It has found its way into Switzerland, and many parts of Spain, and Italy, have been obliged to yield up to its stern demand, thousands of their population.
In Constantinople and many other cities of Turkey, it has been most severe, also throughout Russia. The loss among our troops and the French, is estimated at upwards of twelve thousand: and the Russian loss from the same cause is said to be very great. Africa has not escaped, and the great continent of America has been made to feel the withering hand of this "noisome pestilence.."
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 2, 1 February 1855, Page 28
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202CHOLERA. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 2, 1 February 1855, Page 28
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