The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-07-08
THE DREADED scoURoE

The Plague sweeping on Toward ClyElI-l-
linn-11osCuT Threataugd 10y che PGlti-
renee Hts -dF1acs Rapid and Aiar q
ST. PErEHsBJ-Eu, July G--CHulerl APP
pears 20 be advancing toward Moscow.
10 is privately reported that the disease
has appeared ou the other side of the
Folga ga Samaru- The mortality is iE-
creasing In Balra aud its zuburhz-
Reports from Elizlbathport aud Fri
van and other cholera infested towns
In the Caucasus all testify TO tue Inc
capacity OF the authorities 70 cope with
the situation and to the filthy condition
of the places The food lsed is DO
scribed as Injurious, while the nou-eE-
istence of any system of drainage is de
ptored. Sarats1f is apparently tie only
threatened Russian town where effici-
ent preventive measures have been
taken The risk of eontagiou is great
ly increased by the inhabitants eating
putrid fish which constitute their
ha bituaL food.
1t is rumored that the cholera has APP
peared at Eomauoff and the medical de
partment has received disquieLiHg news
from Rybiusir.
The Russian Steam Navigation Co.
and the Austrian Lloyds have with
drawn their steamers which have been
plying in the Batoum route on account
of the cholera epidemic
Only four doctors at BulCu have vol
unteercd to attend the patients i'm the
cholera hospitals. The other doctors
only assist IN the work when they are
compelled to give their services by the
very strict rules to that effect which
I the government has issued
The hospitals of Balzu are entirely
Inadequate for the heavy demands
which are being made upon them, and
medicines and diSiu feCtauts are only to
I be obtained by the payment of eEorbi-
10 HHa1
/ have commenced the work OF disinfeet-
/ ing the streets of the town by sprinlS-
+ ling large quantities of petroleum
; through each thoroughfare- The iu-
J habituuts of Illlzu complain thar "a tenn
/ porarv hospital for the reception of
/ cholera patients has been erected in the
most pupulous district of the town
The officials of the trous-Caucasian
/ railway have decided to construct tenn
/ porary hospitals at seven of the sta
! tons between Ialzu and Tiuis. Pend
/ ing the construction of these hospitals
patients wiz be lodged in disuscd rail-
/ way carriages.
I Nobody from the cholera injected dis
/ tricts is allowed to- approach any trains
and the Russian from tier has been closed
against Russian goods coming by way
] of Ouzlmluda with the exception OF
/ cotton which has been subjected TO a
/ months quarantine All persons
. LraFeLlu2 are also com peLle- TO undergo
+ quarantine Tor tine same time
( The TiGis police have received the
/ strictcst orders to- closely watch ala ar,
/ rivals from the suspected districts.
Official advices from SIratov, capital
of the Russian government of thai
name, state that in the past few days
twenty new cases of cholera have been
reported there and that b. the same
time eight deaths from the disease have
occurred Only one of the persons Ht
tackled had been known to have had
any communication with places where
the disease existed or WI n persons suf
/ feriug from 1T.
j The disease is spreading at Astrukau
On Sunday there were nineteen cases
in the town and fOrty-dvc in the Rho
4 dCsta