, 1892-08-13

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day are 225 persons attacked AMI 1O2 deaths.
The Russian Gazette gives accounts of Sc
rlouS cholera riots at Astrakhan, where a
state of siege has been declared in consequence.
The working class and the lower orders
even went so Tar as to drag the dead bodies
out of the hospital. The Governors house
was attacked. and the troops had to fire
upon the rioters. The chief cause Of the
rising was, 10 doubt, the use of quicklimc
in burying cholera victims. The popular
report was that patients were placed in their
collins while still alive, and that lime was
sprinkled over them. The Ignorant muses. re-
fused TO believe III cholera, and regarded the
compulsory removal ofthe sick to the hospitals.
and sanitary regulations geaerally,a akind of
conspiracy on the part Of the doctors and
officials. Order was only res stored on the ar
ilvai Of two Llttalious of infantry from Sara
ton and the discharge Of Il volley into the midst
of the mob.
Details of the riots in the Astrakhan Messen-
ger show that the mob had complete possession
of the town during the 3rd and 4th. The
hospiia! was burnt 10 the ground, and every
body connected with it more or less injured.
One doctor and an assistant were brutally
beaten to death and t~rampled upon. Hospital
carts were stopped and demolished in the
streets. In an ignorant belief that cholera
patients were being poisoned or buried alive
by the doctors, the former were carried by the
rioters to the hanks Of the Volga and fed on
milk as an antidote to the supposed poison.
Several soon sucoumbed to this extraordinary
treatment.
The Neue Freie Presse of Monday evening
publishes the following information respecting
the cholera at Baku:-"The members Of the
Town Council and several Of the authorities.
besides numbers of merchants and labourors.
have left the town. The factories are closed.
The epidemic meets little resistance, as the
population is taking fright. The number of
people IN quarantine at Astrakhan is about
5000. The Administration forgot to provide for
their subsistence, and there is no drinking
water IN the quarantine quarters. While at
Baku the Town Council will not hear Of ener-
eetlc sanitary measures, the labouring classes
at Astrakhan are preventing them from being
carried ont. ine Minister of War has ordered
a whole regiment to proceed from Saratoff to
Astrakhan In order to draw a sanitary Gordon.
The Governor of Nj ni-Novgorod has addressed
a proclamation to the people urging them to
keep calm when the cholera makes its appear
ance and not to allow designing persons to
promote disturbances among them
n consequence Of the spread of he cholera
III Persia, navigation on the Tigris has been
greatly reduced. The annual fair at MINI
Novgorod will be opened on July OF. The
Goyernor-Genera of the province has declined
to entertain the suggested postponement Of the
fair for a month on the ground that the gath
ering would not contribute to the spread of the
cholera, and that the sanitary precautions
which have been taken are amply sufficient.
The cholera does nor appear to be advancing
on the Meshed- Teheran road, although a few
cases are reported at various points. The
Russian authorities are said to have virtually
stopped traffic on the Caspian in view of the
epidemic. No unfavourable signs whatever
are observable at Teheran, and the daily NOR
tality is very low.
1t is now confirmed that the cholera has
reached Samara, one of the provinces which
suffered most by the famine.
The appearance of cholera is announced at
Acre, and a quarantine of seven days has been
imposed on arrivals at Alexandria from Syrian
ports between Beyrout and Jafa, the ports
named not included.
Excellent accounts have been received of
the health of the pilgrims about to return from
Mecca.
The choleraic epidemic in Paris, which has
spread to "a suburban villages, continues to
cause deaths with appalling suddeness-in
some cases the illness has ended fatally in two
hours. Nevertheless, great r~eticence is OBJ
served by the authorities, and attempts are
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