The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-07-09
PLAGUE ENTERS RUSSIA.
Cholera Makes Its Appearance in the
Famine District,

Famine District.
ST. PErERsBrRG, July 5.-Cholera has
invaded Russia. despite the efforts OF
tho authorities to prevent it, and from
f:any points on the frontier
come reports of the spread of the
scourge. 1t now seems certain that the
provinces that have suffered from the
famine are to be swept by the plague.
1t cannot be halted, and the victims are
certain to number hundreds of thou
sands.
Reports from Elizabethport and Err
van and other cholera infested towns In
the Caucasus all testify to the incapacity
ri the authorities to cope with the stu
alton and to the filthy condition of the
towns. The food used is described as
Injurious, while the non-existence ofany
system of drainage is deplored. Sara
to1 IS apparently the only threatened
I;lssian town where efficient prevent.
I've measures have been taken. The
risk Of contagion in Astrakhap is great
~ increased by the inhabitants eating
putrlI fish, which constitute their
habltual food. Il is rumored that the
tiiOEtid HAS p9GdftAi III llOlltllOu, anu
the medical department has received
dlSquleting news from Rvbinsk.
he Russian Steam Navigation
Company and the Austrian IIoyds
have withdrawn their steamers
which have been plying in the
BatouI route on account of the cholera
epidemic. Only four doctors at Baku
have volunteered to attend the patients
II the cholera hospitals. The other
'octors only assist in the work when
they are compelled 70 give their se1v-
Ices by the very s1rlCt rules to that eff
iett which the government has issued.
III hospitals III Bahu are entirely in
adequate for the heavy demands which
are being made on them, and medi-
mes and disinie Giants are only TO be
obtained ~ the payment of exol Ditant
prices. The municipal authorities have
commenced the work Of disinfectine
tie streets OF the town b. sprinkline
large quantities of petroleum in each
thorough1are. The inhabitants Of Baku
complain that Il temporary hospital for
the reception 0. cholera patients has
been erected in the most pOpulous dis
t,ict % the town.
lie officials of the Trans Caucasian
hallway have decided TO construct tenn
gpTary hospitals al seven Of the stations
h.tWeen Baku and Titlls. Pending the
SO Instruction Of these hospitals, patients
viii be lodged in disused railway car
riagcs. Nobody from tie cholera-in-
tested district is allowed to approach
any trains aul the Russian frontier mas
been closed agains; russian goods com
lng by Way o. Ouzamanda with the ex-
cIptIon OF cotton which las been sub
}cctcd 70 i months quarantine Al! per-
sons travelling are 4 80 compelled to un-
derIo quarantine for the same time
lie iliiIs police have received the
etrlctcst orders 10 closely watch all ar
rivals from tile suspected districts
Official ;ldvlCeS from >tratov, capital 0
II" RUSSIAN COVE rnmeut OF that name,
state that III til" past few DAYS twenty
nov cases OF cholera have been reported
thcre, and that in the same time eight
'!eaths from the disease have occurred.
taly one of the persons attacked had
been known IL have had any commllui-
cation with places here the disease ex-
istti nr Wl'h persons suffering from it.
he disease Is SpreadIngat Astrak han.
sssi sunday there were nineteen cases in
the town and fUrtv-iivc IN the Rho
dcrta.
IAafs, Julr 5.-I'resh deaths from
choicrln" have occurred in the suburbs
:tr. e,csman /"e describes the condi-
lion OF tile barracks of Paris rs scan
..aaGS. lie s,tvs they are perfect hot
psas of Infection, ana that some of them
si..Ee nat isarn cleaned, " hllewasEed or
tcpa.Tcd ii i ccAtafv.