The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-07
THE CHOLERA.

Terrible Rayases OF t'.e Disease in
Russia-ViuaSe Dying out-Thc Pes
thence yirutent from the Black Sc"
TO the White, frGm :sac TRIAL Noun
fains 10 the Pru n Frontier.
Berlin august 81 Correspondence London Times.
Like an invading force, the cholera
sends fatal shafts in advance before
discharging its regular broadsides.
Berlin, as yet free from the scourge, is
fast being drawn within its deadly
shadow. During the last few days ia
tai cholera cases have occurred at Can't
zic, Elbing, Altoona, Coblentz, Leipsic,
and Vienna In other words, the
shores of the Rhine and the Danube,
and the centre Of Germany have been
simultaneously visited. As usual in
the early stages of the disease. in which
it is restricted to individual cases, a
controversy has arisen in some of those
towns whether the enemy they have to
wrestle with is the real Asiatic fiend OF
bad sort Of dysentery. This is a dis
pute which at the beginning of the cpl
demic cannot be well decided On the
one hand the cholera does not always
display It's extreme virulence at the very
outset; on the other hand, the worst
cases Of dysentery have exactly the
same outward symptoms as cholera,
and even to the anatomlst display the
same peculiar disorganizatiOn of the
body. In addition to the localities
Just touched by it, the scourge con-
tinues to rage at Konigsberg and in
the neighbomng districts of East Prus-
STA At Konigsberg about 40 persons
are seized daily, Of whom one-third
Succumb.
The intelligence we receive from Rus
STA concerning the progress of the cpl
dellic IS still very alarming. At Mos
COW, according to the official report, 40
persons were suffering from the disease
on August 81 OF these 30 recovered
on that day and 26 died, leaving 426 un-
der medical treatment. On the 22d
there were % fresh cases, % recoyeries,
and Is deaths. On the % the fresh
cases amounted to II, recOveries to
Is, deaths to IS, those under treatment
being 40. On August IS the sum total
of all those in Moscow seized since the
beginning of the epidemic March 49,
was 5,O55. Ofthese 2, $40 had recovered
these last figures with those recorded
in the third week of August proves that
the mortality, which at one time exceed
eel half the number of cases, has latter
" considerably diminished. In the
neighb0rhood of the old capital, how
ever, the disease has not yet exhausted
its yirulence- In the Tergieff Posal,
some forty persons are being carried off
in every q hours In the village Zu-
batchevka Is persons died on the Odd
inst In the village of Svetogorova Is
succumbed on the same day; the ham,
let of Isaroif having no less than 81 vic
time within the same period. This I'M
fortunate Isaroff was obliged to close
its bereaved houses, and send its Orph-
ans to to monastery of st. Sergius to be
taken care of by the priests.
From the interior of Russia we have
only fragmentary intelligence, which,
however, is but too well calculated to
reveal the immense extent of this year S
epidemic. To begin with St Peters
burg, the total number of those having
the disease averages between 100 and
300 per day. There are daily twenty
fresh cases, about as many recoveries,
reduction Of the metropolitan mortality
to these comparatively satisfactory fig
ures is probably owing to the exertions
of the police, who have been lately SUI
perintending the dIsinfection of the
sewers and cesspools with the utmost
rigor At Wilma and Nishai- NovgOrod
the application of the same strict dlsci-
pine has led to the same favorable re
suit; but IN the small towns and III the
villages where people are very much
left to themselves, the infection is
spreading further and further, and
without as yet abating in intensity.
According To the latest advices, the
provinces most visited are Mohiletf,
Noronesh, Riazan, Saratot1., Yaroslay,
Novgorod, Witepsk, kursk, and Tam
botf In the last mentioned province
matters have reached q terrible climax
BY the 18th of August the number OF
sufferers, which on the first of that
month had dwludled to S27, had again
Increased to 6, l24, of whom full one
hall had died. The districts most Sc
verely afflicted were Tamboff and BOr-
lsseglebSk. IN the formcrof which |, 23S
persons out of ,, $50 seized, died in less
than a fortnight, the latter having 931
deaths In |, 206 Sc lures in the same pc
Rod. That disastrous fortnight saw
pos deaths out of 2S1 seizures IN the
District Of kosloff, 1877 deaths out OF
3SS in the District of Lipetzk 1902 deaths
ont of 2S7 seizures in the District of
Morshansk, l03 deaths out of 266 seiz-
ures in the town of klransotf, &c. In
Rorisso9lebsk the calamity is so great
that the railway from that place to Ia
ryzine, on the lower Nolga-an import
ant line which otherwise would have at
tracted considerable attention-was
opened without any demonstration on
the part of the government or public
That the Emperor viii not undertake
his contemplated journey to the eau
casus IN the present state of the Nolga
provinces, through which he would have
to pass, may be regarded certain.
Nor do the western and southern re-
glons show any improvement. IN
SH30ICHSk, tChOie riUdgeS Sre said to
Be dying OFT. Orel, the sanitary state
of which Is never very good, has seen
Its railway labOrers infected. The
town Of lula suffers little; the worst
off is the country surrounding it.
From the 18th to the 18th of August,
163 were taken i'll IN the district of
Neney, of whom II died. In the pro
vince Of kaluga the sum total Of
deaths, according to the latest advices,
Is $50 C., rather more than third
IS II