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Article THE GENERAL ASSURANCE ADVOCATE. ← Page 6 of 6 Article THE CHOLERA. Page 1 of 2 →
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The General Assurance Advocate.
small land owners , independent of daily wages , and applying their industrial energies for their own benefit . These are no dreams of a frenzied visionary , no fancies of a heated brain ; they are views which have been carefully and calmly considered , and they only want the active co-operation of the many , to become substantial realities . But that co-operation is only to be obtained by the intelligent few organizing the people , or such portions of them as are ripe for organization , for the benefit of all , both as individuals , and in the aggregate .
The Cholera.
THE CHOLERA .
THIS year we have been visited hy a fearful plague , which , after an almost complete interregnum of about seventeen years , has re-appeared with greater intensity ancl fatality than ever . AVherever it has come , alike in the dwellings of the poor or the mansions of the rich , it has been the dread herald of mourning and death . AVhether in the close air of the towns , or the pure open atmosphere of the country—in the
dirty foul alleys or the green lanes of the rural districts , the scourge has been powerful for desolation . In the short space of a few months many thousands have fallen under its deadly influence . It seems to set all theraupetic resources , all scientific knowledge , all medical skill at utter defiance ; and unless it go as it came , unless the winds of heaven blow away the plague as they brought it , it does not seem to be materially
within the power of human effort to stay the pestilence . It is unlike typhus and other fevers , whicli arise year by year in poor , dirty , ancl unwholesome neighbourhoods , immolating their hecatombs of victims ,
but seldom venturing beyond the nests of filth in Which they are bred . Of them we hear little or nothing . Their results are almost unknown , except to the surgeon who ventures amid the haunts of disease only to find his skill baffled by the surrounding fcetid atmosphere , and unrecorded except in the rank and file sort of bulletin of the Registrar . The cholera has in all probability its nuclei , its strongholds in the same
localities as typhus , but it is far more subtle , and wider in its range . It permeates through the artificial barriers which separate the world of wealth from the world of poverty ; like death it comes with equal impartiality to the doors of cottages and the towers and palaces of kings . The dainty patrician , the portly citizen , and the starved pauper fall before it with almost equal facility . It is no respecter of persons .
Like an army of barbarians , it spares neither age , rank , nor sex . For every Lazarus that dies spreading the infection , a Dives- expires . Amid such wide-spread mortality , visiting all classes , it might be supposed that Insurance Societies had been great sufferers ; but we believe that
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The General Assurance Advocate.
small land owners , independent of daily wages , and applying their industrial energies for their own benefit . These are no dreams of a frenzied visionary , no fancies of a heated brain ; they are views which have been carefully and calmly considered , and they only want the active co-operation of the many , to become substantial realities . But that co-operation is only to be obtained by the intelligent few organizing the people , or such portions of them as are ripe for organization , for the benefit of all , both as individuals , and in the aggregate .
The Cholera.
THE CHOLERA .
THIS year we have been visited hy a fearful plague , which , after an almost complete interregnum of about seventeen years , has re-appeared with greater intensity ancl fatality than ever . AVherever it has come , alike in the dwellings of the poor or the mansions of the rich , it has been the dread herald of mourning and death . AVhether in the close air of the towns , or the pure open atmosphere of the country—in the
dirty foul alleys or the green lanes of the rural districts , the scourge has been powerful for desolation . In the short space of a few months many thousands have fallen under its deadly influence . It seems to set all theraupetic resources , all scientific knowledge , all medical skill at utter defiance ; and unless it go as it came , unless the winds of heaven blow away the plague as they brought it , it does not seem to be materially
within the power of human effort to stay the pestilence . It is unlike typhus and other fevers , whicli arise year by year in poor , dirty , ancl unwholesome neighbourhoods , immolating their hecatombs of victims ,
but seldom venturing beyond the nests of filth in Which they are bred . Of them we hear little or nothing . Their results are almost unknown , except to the surgeon who ventures amid the haunts of disease only to find his skill baffled by the surrounding fcetid atmosphere , and unrecorded except in the rank and file sort of bulletin of the Registrar . The cholera has in all probability its nuclei , its strongholds in the same
localities as typhus , but it is far more subtle , and wider in its range . It permeates through the artificial barriers which separate the world of wealth from the world of poverty ; like death it comes with equal impartiality to the doors of cottages and the towers and palaces of kings . The dainty patrician , the portly citizen , and the starved pauper fall before it with almost equal facility . It is no respecter of persons .
Like an army of barbarians , it spares neither age , rank , nor sex . For every Lazarus that dies spreading the infection , a Dives- expires . Amid such wide-spread mortality , visiting all classes , it might be supposed that Insurance Societies had been great sufferers ; but we believe that