CHOLERA, ASIATIC. 

 1. Statistics of Societies. 



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2. Statistics of the various Stations. 



Total in 1666: ordained missionaries, 9Y; 

 lay missionaries, 14 ; missionary ladies, 93 ; 

 whole number of missionaries, 204; number of 

 native helpers, 206 ; number of members re- 

 ceived in 1805, 282 ; whole number of native 

 members, 3,142. One of the most remarkable 

 awakenings that is known in the whole history 

 of Protestantism of China took place in 1866, in. 

 connection with (lie out-stations of the Tien- 

 tsin mission of the English "New-Connection 

 Methodists, especially at Lou-Leing, where in 

 September forty-five persons were admitted to 

 baptism. The converts added to the mission 

 churches of the London Society, in Shanghai, 

 and the province of which it forms the capita]. 

 numbered, during the year 1866, 189. 



CHOLERA, ASIATIC. This formidable dis- 

 ease gave evidence that it was not extinguished, 



either in Europe or America, during the year 

 1867. There were few or no marked cases in the 

 cities of the Atlantic coast, though several ships 

 arrived at the. New York quarantine which 

 had suffered severely from it since their de- 

 parture from European ports. In Philadelphia 

 the United States receiving-ship Potomac ar- 

 rived at the Navy- Yard from Peusacola, early 

 in October, with a clean bill of health, and in 

 a supposed good sanitary condition. On its 

 arrival, new recruits were received on board 

 from the city, soon after which cholera ap- 

 peared on the ship, the first three who were 

 attacked being new recruits, who had just 

 come on board. The disease raged violently 

 on board the ship, and forty deaths occurred 

 from it. It did not extend to the city. The 

 arrival of the Sassacus at the Navy- Yard of the 

 same city a little later gave some cause of 

 alarm, but. the disease did not spread. In New 

 York, after several months of immunity, the 

 immigrant-ship Lord Brougham came into quar- 

 antine about the 1st of December, forty -eight 

 days from Hamburg, having lost 75 of its pas- 

 sengers from cholera, and with about 20 more 

 'sick of it. On the llth of January, 1868, the 

 ship Leibnitz arrived from Hamburg, after a 

 passage of sixty days, during which 105 of the 

 iiriTs had died with cholera and 35 were 

 still sick with it. In all there have been, on the 

 four ships detained at the New York quarantine, 

 440 cases and 238 deaths. An English troop- 

 ship, tin- Himalaya, brought the disease from 

 Malta to Quebec, losing a large number of pas- 

 sengers during the voyage. In none of these 

 cases did the disease extend to the ports them- 



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