None
of the Atlantic coast cities suffered from this epidemic in 1873,
and since that year the United States has been entirely free from
the disease, with the exception of a few imported cases in New
York harbor in 1887" (and in 1893). In 1883 an epidemic of
cholera raged in Egypt and spread to many of the Mediterranean
ports, and reappeared in 1885 with renewed violence. In Spain
alone during this latter epidemic the total number of cases was
over one-third of a million, with nearly 120,000 deaths. In 1886
cholera caused at least 100,000 deaths in Japan. In the latter
part of 1886 cholera was carried from Genoa to Buenos Ayres, and
crossing the Andean range invaded the Pacific coast for a second
time. In Chili alone there were over 10,000 deaths from cholera
in the first six months of 1887. Since then the entire Western
hemisphere has been virtually free from the disease.
In 1889 there was an epidemic of cholera in the Orient; and in
1892 and 1893 it broke out along the shores of the Mediterranean,
invading all the lines of commerce of Europe, Hamburg in the
North and Marseilles in the South being especially affected. In
the summer of 1893 a few cases appeared in New York Bay and
several in New York city, but rigorous quarantine methods
prevented any further spread.
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