Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-06
CAUCASUS CHOLERA
The Authorities Are Incapable of
Coping With the Disease.
TUE HOSPITALS ARE INADEQUATE
To Care for the Hundreds of Patients
Applying for Treatment.
PLAGUE-STRICKEN TOWNS IN RUSSIA

ST. PETERSBURG, July 8. 5.-Reports from
Elizabethport and other cholera infected
towns in the Caucasus all testify to the in
capacity of the authorities to cope with the
situation and to the filthy condition of the
towns. The food used by the inhabitants is
described as injurious, while the non-exist-
ence of any system of drainage is deplored.
Saratoff is apparently the only threatened
Russian town where efficient and energetic
preventive measures have been taken.
The risk of contagion in Astrakhan is
greatly increased by the inhabitants eating
putrid fish, which constitute their habitual
peared in Romanof, and the medical de-
partment has received disquieting news
from Rybinsk. The Russian Steam Navi-
cation Company and the Austrian Lloyds
have withdrawn their steamers which have
been plying on the Batoum route on account
Of the cholera epidemic.
Only four doctors at Baku have volun-
teered to attend the patients in the cholera
hospitals. The other doctors only assist in
the work when they are compelled to give
their services by the very strict orders to
that effect which the Government has issued.
The hospitals in Baku are entirely made
quate for the heavy demands which are be-
ing made on them, and medicines and dis
infectants are only to be obtained by the
payment of exorbitant prices. The munich
pal authorities have commenced the work
of disinfecting the streets of the town by
sprinkling large quantities of petroleum in
each thoroughfare. The inhabitants of
Baku complain that temporary hospital
for the reception of cholera patients has
been erected in the most populous district
of the town.
Officials of the Trans Caucasian Rail-
way have decided to construct temporary
hospitals at seven of the stations between
Baku and Tifis. Pending the construc-
tion of these hospitals patients will be
Nobody from the cholera-infected dis
tricts is allowed to approach any TRAINS
and the Russian frontier has been closed
against all Persian goods coming by way
of Ouzumundi, with the exception of cot
ton, which has been subjected to months
quarantine. All Persian travellers are also
compelled to undergo quarantine for the
same length of time The Tiffs police have
received the strictest orders to closely
watch all arrivals from the suspected dis
tricts
Hot Beds of the Inspection.
Official advices from Saratov, capital of
the Russian Government of that name, state
that in the past two days 20 new cases of
cholera have been reported there and that
in the same time eight deaths from the dis
ease have occurred. Only one of the per-
sons attacked by the cholera had been
known to have had any communication
with places where the disease existed or
with persons suffering from it. The dis
ease is spreading at Astrakhan. On Sunday
there were 10 cases in the town and 45 In
the roadstead.
Advices from Paris say fresh deaths
from cholera have occurred in the suburbs
Dr. German See describes the condition of
the barracks of Paris as scandalous. He
says they are perfect hotbeds of infection,
and that some of them have not been
cleaned, whitewashed or repaired for a CEN
tury. DR.. Proust, in a report to the Board
Of Public Health on cholera in the Caucasus,
says the greatest vigilance is necessary to
prevent the epidemic following the course
the disease took in 1881 and 1S47.
The St Petersburg correspondent of the
London Times says: Cholera appears to be
toward Moscow. 1t is privately
reported that the disease has appeared on
the other side of the volga, in Samara.
The mortality is increasing in Baku and its
suburbs