Word: cholera
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Into Shanghai's foreign settlements from the war-torn countryside nearly a million and a half panic-stricken Chinese refugees had surged by last week, some with cholera, some with expected smallpox and all with ravenous stomachs. "They constitute a menace to the safety of Shanghai on a par with the menace of the war itself. . . . God alone knows what will happen!" groaned International Settlement Municipal Councilman W. H. Plant. "The public little realizes the dangers Shanghai is facing. . . . These 1,500,000 people are evidently going to remain indefinitely. Food riots, epidemics and disease seem certain...
Though the typhoon had spent itself after six hours there was left behind a trail of fires and cholera. At week's end, British officials were still trying to assess casualties and damages, despondently gave out that at least 600 lives had been lost, that the typhoon had cost about 1,000,000 Hong Kong dollars...
...identified by a red cross which, according to tradition, had been on his breast at birth. Roman Catholics came to believe God had given Roch the power of healing the plague-stricken, and he was canonized even before the city of Constance was delivered from cholera in 1414 by prayers for his intercession. Last week brought the feast (Aug. 16) of St. Roch and in Pittsburgh was commemorated what Catholics believe to have been a miracle as ineffable as any the saint invoked during his life...
...1840s and 1850s the U. S. was periodically swept by Asiatic cholera. In 1849, polluted drinking water brought it to Pittsburgh where in two or three weeks it killed some 5,000 of the city's 45,000 inhabitants. Business activities ceased, citizens barred themselves indoors, while carts rumbled off with the dead, and hydrants gushed to rid the town of its foulness. Among the devout who tolled their church bells and prayed for deliverance were the Catholics of St. Michael's parish on the South Side, who addressed their supplications to St. Roch and the Blessed Virgin...
...snow, surrounded by the ice-coated corpses of his guides. Sick, decadent La Scaze, a rich Frenchman, voluptuary, onetime author, remained in Aqsu to recover from fever. Inert and drugged through most of his stay, he awakened when he saw a flawlessly beautiful native girl, who died of cholera the day after he got her. When the plague caught up to him he met his death crying ecstatically, "I am purified." His beautiful Spanish wife had abandoned him when he collapsed with fever. Heading for Shanghai in the company of a Chinese fur merchant, she exhausted her last will power...