Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-22
The Present Epidemic.

1t is difficult to follow the present cpl
demic in the East with anything like par
ticularity, owing to the scanty report sent
by the cable There was an outbreak of
more than usual violence in Syria last
summer. 1t devastated many small viii
lagos. The reports made by Spiradon G.
Iavitziano, the government correspondent
at Constantinople show that from June.
1891, to February, 1892, there were g., 461
deaths in four provinces. This induced
the Turkish Government to erect new
lazarettos. and the Russian Government
established strict guarantees on the ports
Of the Black Sea.
Meanwhile the plague appeared with un-
usual violence in the villages of Northern
India and with the impulse Of the Hurdwar
festival soon became q raging epidemic.
The pilgrims and the Provinda his scattered
it broadcast. We began TO hear OF it in
May. At that time the district of Srinagar,
in the extreme north Of India, was the CEN
ter of the plague There were 1.600 deaths
there in one week. All work in the coun-
try districts was suspended. The ignorant
and superstitious people felt that a judg-
ment WAS on them and made no ATTEMPT to
stay it's ravages. Hundreds were taken
sick daily and lay down by the roadside or
in the fields to die The dead We're left UNI
buried i'll the blazing sun. and the stencil
became horrible The capital Of the dis
trict, the city of Srinagar, took fire and
burned to the ground The inhabitants,
without food or clothing, took to the coun-
try to increase the awful misery there. An
attempt was made to help them from La
hore. but it resulted in carrying the chol-
era there with hundreds of deaths. Srina-
gar was one of the flthiest cities Of India.
Between May and June II 5000 of its
population of $4,000 died Of cholera.
There were eos deaths May 30 The dead
were seldom buried.
In April the cholera began it's westward
march from India to the Caspian sea. 1t
had laid waste II large territory of Northern
India. 1t crossed the Indus and invaded
Afghanistan. Cabul attacked. with
frightful loss Of life, and then Herat, where.
in spite Of the abundant water in and
around the city, the camps Of the pilgrims
and traders gave mighty impetus to its
spread. The villages along the caravan
routes between these two cities were at
tackled and the plague spread north and
south through the country districts, From
Herat it went northwest to the holy city OF
Meshed the Mecca Of many Eastern prin-
cipalites. There it's devastation was ter
rble. For weeks the deaths averaged over
100 daily. 1t is still raging there the last
reports being that it was on the decrease.
the daily death roll having dropped to
thirty fve Still westward the cholera
travelled in the wake Of the caravans. 1t
attack ed Sulvzabar and other towns, and in
a few days it reached Asterabad, on the Cas-
plan sea. It's ravagcs here and in the
neighboring provinces were very great Its
appearance at Asterabad alarmed the Rus
sian authorities and all the Russian ports
on the Caspian were closely quarantined
There is a considerable trade between AS
terabad and Astrakhan, at the month of
the Volga.
It's Ravagcs in Russia.
In May the cholcra crossed the Caspian.
in spite of all precautions, and invaded
Ballu, a Russian seaport just south OF the
Caucasus Mountains. 1t is the great Pc
troleum port of the Caspian and filthy be-
yond description. The cholera was now in
Europe, and it spread rapidly. The author =
tiles, much alarmed, bent all their energies
toward keeping it from Astra khan. the port
at the mouth of the Nolga But they were
unsuccessful The cable reported that the
Russians were too dcmoraliZed to carry out
the requirements of these schedules. About
the middle of July riot was occasioncd in
Saratov by the report that the doctors il
the hospitals were Eurying cholera patients
alive.
1t is reported that 10000 deaths from
cholera have occurred in Russia this sum-
n.er up to date. TO that long roll of NOR
tally should be added $4,000 in Persia. up
to a week ago. and an unknown but large
number in Turke stan and other AS attic
countries, besides several hundreds Per
day in Hamburg and scores daily IN each
of not Il few cities in Germany and France.
than 800, 900 deaths and may exceed that
figure, while there is yet room fol a further
swelling of the list before the activity Of
the cholera germs is destroyed by the ad-
vent of frost
The most encouraging news received in
relation to the scourge is that it has aD-
parently nearly run it's course at Teheran,
in Persia. the daily mortality there having
decreased from 600 to 200. The news from
Russia is not sufficiently explicit to war
raat a similar hope for the cities of that
country for some time longer, though it
should be remembered that informa' ion
from that quarter is generally tardy, so
that the disease might be fairly under con-
troll before we would have an intiniation
that its ravages had been checked. Tho
great thing to be wished for now is colder
weather. If the cholera-smitten regions
were visited by a chilly wave. there would
be good reason to believe that the worst
was over, and the pest would quickly cease
to kill