Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-07
CHOLERA MARCH
Slowly but Surely Progressing
to the Westward.
Plenty Of Food for the Disease to
Feed Upon.
The Towns of Russia are Fes-
tering in Filth.
MAY RIVAL THE EPlDEMlCS OF
1881 AND 1e47.

30 Says DIR. Proust in Report TO the
French Board of Public HeaIth-Tho
Number of Cases in St. Petersburg, Sara
tov, Baku and Other Cities in Russia
Increasing-steps Being Taken to Pre-
vent the Spread of the Disease, Which
hold.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 1.-THE num-
Der of cases of cholera reported by the
authorities is increasing in this city and
ninety-one deaths have been reported at
Baku. The Turkish authorities have
issued stringent orders to have the Rus
sian frontier guarded against the en-
croachments of the disease, which
orders are being literally obeyed.
Russian Towns Ripe for 1t.
Reports from Elizaberthport and
Ervan and other cholera-infected towns
in the Caucasus all testify to the incapa-
city of the authorities to cope with the
situation, and to the filthy conditions of
the towns. The risk of contagion in
Astrakan is greatly increased by the in
habitants eating putrid fish, which con-
stitutes their habitual food. 1t is
rumored that cholera has appeared in
Romanoif and the medical department
has received disquieting news from
Rybinsk
The Russian Steam Navigation com
pany and the Austrian Lloyds have
withdrawn their steamers which have
been plying ON the Batoum route.
Only four doctors at Balu have vol
unteered 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 in
adequate for the heavy demands which
are being made on them and medicines
and disinfectants are only to be obtained
by the payment of exorbitant prices.
The municipal authorities have com
menced the work of disinfochng the
streets by sprinkling large quantities of
petroleum in each thor0ughfare.
The inhabitants of Balu complain
that a temporary hospital for the recep-
ton of cholera patients has been erected
in the most populous district of The
town.
The officials of the Trans Caucasian
railway have decided to construct ten
porary hospitals at seven of the stations
between Baku and Tihis Pending the
construction of these hospitals patients
will be lodged in disused railway car
riages. Nobody from the cholera in
fected districts is allowed to approach
any trains, and the Russian frontier has
been closed against all Persian goods
coming by way of OuZumanda, with
the exception of cotton which has been
subjected to a months quarantine. All
Persian travellers are also compelled tC
undergo the same length of time i'll
quarantine.
Official advices from Saratov capital
of the Russian government of that
name, state that III the past two days
twenty new cases of cholera have been
reported there, and that in the same
time eight deaths from the disease have
occurred, Only one of the persons at
tackled by the cholera had been known
to have had any communication witt
places where the disease existed, or with
persons suffering from it,
The disease is spreading at Astraltan
On Sunday there were nineteen cases in
the town, and forty-Hye IN the road
stead.