Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-26
RAvAGEs OF CHOLERA.

Reports Indicate That 1t Is Spreading Over
Europe-Deaths in tho Afflicted Places
Cholerine Prevails in faris-Fresh Out
breaks in Russia.
ST PETERSBURG, July 25.-Official re-
ports received here to-day show that 10
deaths from cholera have occurred in the
city of Viatka. There have also been fresh
outbreaks of the disease in the Volga river.
M. Witte, Minister of Ways and Communi-
cations, is about to start on tour of survey
of the cholera-infected districts. In Mini
Novgorod cholera is confined to few tray
elers from infected districts. The epidemic
on the Volga is decreasing rapidly in the
South of Russia
pointed in Posen, supervised by military
surgeons. The re port of an outbreak of
cholera at Jablonovo, on the Polish from
tier, is denied. The mortality from cholera
at Odessa is diminishing on the lower
Volga, but north of Tsaritzin the disease is
spreading rapidly in towns and villages
west of the river Private adviceE state
that cholera has broken out at Taganrog,
and that there have been three deaths from
the disease at Ketsch. Through the rapid
rise of the Danube and other rivers various
localities in Southern Austria have been
inundated. Much damage has been done.
Crops lying in the fields partly harvested
were ruined.
Official Returns of the Cases.
The London Times st. Petersburg corre-
spondent says: Official cholera returns for
the period from july II to 21 give the num-
Der Of cases in Russia as 4, ,839 and the num-
Der of deaths as $3.50. There were 15 in
Mimi N orodod.
The Moscow Gazette reports four deaths
from cholera in that city, but official reports
make no mention of them. The doctors of
St. Petersburg are daily expecting cholera
to appear there. The project of police is
dealing severely with opposition to sanitary
regulations. Two servants in charge Of a
house have been sentenced to one and two
weeks imprisonment respectively, and to
years Punishment from St. Petersburg, for
keeping the house in a filthy condition.
The London Standards correspondent at
st. Petersburg says:
The riots in Astrakhan and other places
were partly due to the attitude of doctors,
who, it was reported, often refused to touch
or examine the sick except from distance.
which treatment the lower class resented.
Nobody takes the official cholera returns as
representing the actual state of affairs. The
population does its utmost to conceal cases.
epidemic is decidedly mild and gives no
ground for general anxiety. 1t will be felt
more ss hindrance to commercial activity
than as danger to the population.
Cases Few ir Vienna.
Prof Drache, an expert in cholera says
that the cases of cholerine in Vienna at
present are fewer than usual at this time of
year. There is little probability he thinks
of general invasion of Europe by cholera,
though there is danger of its reaching
Austria. but should August and September
pass without an outbreak that danger will
be over. The ministry of education in
Vienna has issued a circular to the public
giving instructions. how to dagnosticate the
cholera and what immediate treatment to
adopt. The government will accept the
services of every available physician. The
prisons are being thoroughly inspected.
The outbreak of cholera in the suburbs of
Paris continues to diminish. Only two
deaths were reported yesterday. DR.. Boy
land, formerly a professor in Baltimore
medical college, who has had considerable
experience with cholera epidemics, declares
that there is no real Asiatic cholera in
Paris. He says that the disease prevalent
here is merely choierine, arising from the
use of water from the river Seine and that
there is no reason to fear an epidemic, the
majority of the cases having originated in
crowded houses and among consumers of
bad food. Other doctors concur in the
opinion that the disease prevalent in the
city is cholerine, but express the belief
that there has been several cases of Asiatic
cholera in the suburbs.