St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-02
DECEIVED BY RUSSIA.
Europe Under the Shadow Of
an Approaching Cholera
Epidemic.
Russian False Reports Cause
Sanitary Precautions to
Be Relaxed.
The Seourge Not Suppressed
in Many Of the Russian
Provinces.
Cor,s,,0 No., AL TIC uarnnDc
Famine May Add It's Horrors
to Those Of the Epi-
demie.

LONDON, April 1.-The Easter vaca-
ton has begun in the shadow of the
approaching cholera epidemic. in Rus
STA the authorities have been forced to
acknowledge the presence of the dis
ease in several cities and provinces,
which, according to all former official
reports, have been unaffected since
Dec. !. German and Austrian physl-
clans returning from tours OF the prov
inces in question. however, state there
has not been a day since last June
when there was the slightest evidence
that the cholera was suppressed IN
any government south OF ST. Peters
burg. In fourteen governments Of
Southern, Southeastern, Eastern and
NortheaSte TN Russia the deaths have
been numbered by the score every week
for the last six months. These govern
mentS include within their boundaries
most of the black earth region, the
lands which are known as the granary
of Russia. Hence to the horrors of cpl
demic has been added the appalling
prospect of a return of the famine, with
typhus and other fevers in its wake.
An examination of the manner in
which Europe has been lulled into
feeling of comparative security by false
official reports Is found in the recent
conditions in the government of POdo-
liza. The government has maintained
perSistently that POdOlia was entitled TO
4 Clean Sill of Health.
Three Buda Pesth physicians. who
have Just returned from the govern
ment. which they visited i'll semi
official capacity, report that the number
of deaths from cholera in january was
between 800 and 400; in February some
what more than 600. The deplorable
results of the Russian system OF decep-
tiOn in health reports may become sud
denly apparent. In eight Galician VII
lagos near the Russian frontier the
cholera has already shown itself. ana III
four more suspicious cases of chCleraic
diseases have been isolated. All twelve
villages have been frequented during
the winter by Russian peasants to work
in the Galiclan forests. The strlctness
of the watch Oh the border had been re-
Taxed in view of the untrustWOrthy as
suranceS of the Russian authorities, and
therefore these men from infected dis
tricts found little difficulty i'll their
migration, which never would have been
permitted had the fact of the continued
spread of the disease been known to the
health officers in Vienna.
The latest advices from East Prussia
indicate that even the vigilant Germans
were deceived by the false assurances of
Russia and had abated enthusiastically
the severity of the regulations pre-
scribed by the Berlin sanitary officials.
FH,vO william near Thorn are believed 10
be infested. In Thorn two suspicious
cases have been isolated. Bulgaria is
also in danger. for two cases of cholera
were discovered in Rutschuk Wednes-
day. Eminent physicians in Vienna
and Berlin are already prOphesying
that within four weeks all Central Eu-
rope will be obliged to revive the
active campaign Of last summer against
the epidemic.