The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-11
famine had left them no spiri: to resist the

vigorous measures. Many towns and cities
were SO surrounded with sanitary pickets
that 1t was almost impossible to gain adj
mIttance to them Others were thoroughly
cleansed and fumigated, the officials show
ing fine disregard of private rights In
their measures to prepare the town for the
pestilence. The greatest OF fears were for
MINI Novgorod, on the Volga, about 4OO
miles above Samara, where the great fair of
| the late summer was to be held. Many
thousands from all parts of Russia visit this
fair. The town was cleansed and dlsln-
fected in the most thorough manner, but
the cholera got there late IN July.
Schools of instruction in the use OF
dislnfectants were opened il the cities, and
schedules Of obligatory sanitary meas
ures were sent to every factory in the
empire. The cable reports, however, that
the Russians are too demoralized to carry
out the requirements of these schedules.
About the middle of July q riot was oc-
casioned in Saratov by the report that the
doctors in the hospitals were burylng
cholera patients alive. The mob sacked the
government houses and the cholera hospit-
ais, dragging the patients away Disorder
was suppressed by the troops. All the way
from Afghanistan the course of the cholera
has been accented by riots. Those at Astra-
khan, occasoned by popular distrust of the
officials and their sanitary measures, re-
suited in large loss of life ard destruction
Oh property. Ou July 10 buS CLdT pTeslueu dJ
a council, at which was discussed the prop
osition to appoint an official with dictatorIal
power to combat the epidemic. At the
same time the government is publicly be-
lifting the epidemic, and has prohibited
the sale of a st. Petersburg newspaper
which published true reports of it. During
two days of the third week in July the
official record showed l, 300 deaths in Rus
sla of which Sl2 were in cities on the Volga.
For the four days ending July 81, $500
deaths are reported. These reports ara
probably far below the truth.
During the latter part of July the plague
has been moving slowly westward, follow
ing railroad lines. This has greatly alarmed
Germany. Spain has been making extern
sive preparations for the reception Of the
pestllence during the past three weeks. All
vessels from Russian ports are detained at
quarantine for long periods.
On July 81 four deaths from cholera oc-
Cured in Moscow, which. owing to strict
quarantine had held out till then. The ca
Bile announces that the greatest apprehen-
sions are felt at st. Petersburg. On the oc-
casion of former epidemic the car had
st. Petersburg surrounded by troops, with
cannon trained on the various highways to
the city to keep out plagre-stricken people,
but the cholera BROKE out among the SOL
diers aud reached the city after all. This
year quarantine, not 80 vigorous but
probably more effective, has been estab-
lished around the city. During the last
week 1t has been announced that the
cholera has made inroads upon the Cri-
mean territory bordering on the Black
sea- This is ominous, for not only does the
Danube, the highway into Austria, empty
into the black sea near the Crimean penin-
sula, but an enormous trade finds its way
from the ports of this water out through
the Mediterranean TO Italy, Spain, Portu-
gal and France, as well as to the northern
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ems to invade the western countries of
Europe by the southern as well as the north
ern route There is areport that it has APP
peared In Odessa, but so far it la"ks con-
firmation. 1t is through these ports Of the
Black sea that the products OF the east come
TO the United States.
Meantime western Europe has been
thrown into state of great excitement by
the epidemic 10 Paris. The Partisan au-
thorities declare that it is not Asiatic
cholera which has occasioned the death of
hundreds during the past few weeks but a
local disease termed cholerine, occasIoned
by the use of polluted Seine water The
British medical journals boldly attack this
position and declare that the disease is
Asatic cholera. They accuse the Partisan
authorities OF endeavoring to suppress the
real facts. The pestilence is increasing
daily, and the situation is becoming grave.
A special commission has been APP
| u,
and Pasteur has been called IN consultation
The same disease has lately appeared at
Vienna on the Danube and has occasioned
no small alarm. Distinguished French and
German physicians are reported to have ex-
pressed the opinion that it, is really Asiatic
cholera, which has reached Paris from Rus
STA by ship and has come up the Danube out
of tie Black sea to Vienna. Time alone will
settle this question.
In any event it is scarcely probable that
cholera will not cross the Atlantic.
THE EPIDEMIC OF 1882.
Those who remember visitations of
cholera to this country tremble at the pros
pect OF its return. We never saw the
disease until 1892, when it ragged hero with
frightful violence. 1t came to us over pre-
cisely the course followed by the present
epidemic, except that there we're then no
railroads to aid 10. 1t reached Quebec first
by ship, and travelled down Lake Cham
plain. 1t broke out in New York, and two
days later was in Albany. Then 1t moved
west, appearing within a few days at
Utica, Schenectady, Syracuse and Buffalo.
1t ravaged New York state, appearing
without warning in most Of the towns and
villages.
In New York It created a panic It
conferred at the Five Points, then an over
crowded locality. far more filthy than any
section OF the city to-day, and spread like
| 1re In every direction. For long period
the death rate averaged seventy day The
physicians Of the city did not understand
its nature and attributed its spread to con-
tagion IN the air. The people left town by
thousands and took refuge in neighborinR
country villages. During that year ,740
persons died Of cholera throughout the
country, and the year following !, 900 more
Boston, Newark, Philadelphia and New Or
leans also suffered greatly. Ia Philadelphia
the panic was so great that the dead were
left unburied by hundreds until commit
tee of citizens volunteered 10 gather up the
bodies and place them under ground. IL
also spread to Havana, where 10, 900 Of the
900 inhabitants died of it in a year.
In lS4S the cholera came again This time
1t reached the country by SHIP from Europe
to New Orleans. 1t reached New York, but
did not amount to much here It covered
the entire west. 1t was worst at New Or
leans, where 1915 died in 1S4S, 3, 176 in
1S49 and !, 446 in 1850. 1t fingered in various
yarts Of the country, with occasional out
breaks. until 1854.
THE EPIDEMIC OF 1866.
Then came the epidemic Of 1865. This
also originated in India and reached US
from Europe by ship. In that year the
New York board of health organized,