Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-01
DANGEROUS CONDITIONS
The Cholera Rages Without Hindrance in
St Petersburg.
Little OF No Sanitary Precautions I'm
Exfstence-FOul Canals and Cess
pools Everywhere.

writes:
1.-The disease has progressed materially
since my last report. especially in st. Pc
tersburg. where IL has assumed alarming
proportions. 1t continues at Cronstadt. and
is even reported to be present in Finland,
where II was never before seen. In Galicia
there were many more cases than last
week. and new cases have appeared IN Ger
many and the Netherlands. In Belgium
cholera still continues. especially in towns
along the Meusa. which river is undoubtedly
infected. On the whole. the outlook is rath-
er alarming. far more so. indeed. than at
this time last year.
simultaneously with the news OF the ap-
pearancs Of cholera i'm Germany, a report
has come to hand which warrants the be-
lief that the outbreak OF cholera In ST. Pc
tersburg Is more serious than the official
announcements indicate. The disease has
taken hold OF all the districts OF the city,
with the single exception OF that known as
the admiralty quarter, ana IL has also
spread TO the suburbs. July l3 a telegram
states that In the city of St Petersburg
and vicinity several hundred cases of
cholera occur daily. There have been fifty
cases In the military camp at Krasno Zeloe
From the Sth to the lith of July there were
In the city sI5 cases and "a deaths"
A Further Increase.
Under date Of July Is Surgeon Irwin re-
ports:
Cholera in this city shows a further in
crease. The total number OF cases reported
yesterday was 2lS. the deaths numbering
sixty-nlne. The project has ordered all wine
shops in the city to be CLOSED on Sunday
and fete days during the prevalence of the
epidemic. Not only the authorities and the
public generally. but even members of the
medical faculty are beginning to be serious
ly alarmed at the rapid spread Of the dis
ease. The st. Petersburg board OF health
has caused public notices to be posted up in
the streets giving directions as to the best
measures TO be taken to ward on the dis
ease. Several public buildings are to be
utilized as temporary hospitals here and In
the suburbs. The correspondent Of the Lon
don Times writes under date of July Is that
the cholera in St Petersburg is assuming
alarming proportions. being much more In
tense and fatal than during the outbreaks
Of the two previous years. Altogether IL
Is thought that the epidemic must nave
been reintrodnced from Poland into the CAP
ital. The first ca ses seem to have appeared
In Cronstadt. At first there was consider
able apathy. but now the authorities have
been reused to energetic Efforts Tomorrow
the sanitary commission will begin to sit
continuously to meet every emergency.
Carbolic acid has been distributed through
out the city. The hospitals are all full ana
one OF the prisons has been prepared for re-
ceiving patients. In spite Of all that il be-
ing done, the press severely takes 10 task
the municipal authorities for the horrible
wate-. foul odors and other defects OF the
town.
To-day received the following disrstch
from Mr.. Andrew ID. White the minister of
the United States at St Petersburg:
st PETERSBURG, 18th July.
Yesterday 30 cases. fifty-two deaths,
49, still sick: epidemic serious.
(Sgred) WHITE
There have been in all, in this city. since
the LIST or July. more than !. 800 cases.
Preventive Piacards.
"At Hansoe, Finland. cases and 1 death:
on July TO- in Ss-anitz, district of Wesen-
berg. government of Estland. IL cases and
. deaths: city of Warsaw. 10Th June to 5th
July. "a cases and - deaths: government Of
kielce. 18th June to 4th July 90 cases and
36 deaths; Radon, cath June to Sd July 80
cases and 10 deaths: Piock. 18th June to 4th
July. 81 cases and ii deaths. The following
are for later dates. but are not official:
Cronsfadt Sth to 18th July. 81 cases and Is
deaths; city Of Warsaw. LIST to eth July l6
cases and 3 deaths; government of Warsaw,
same dates. S3 cases and p deaths; Kielce,
1l9 cases and - deaths; Estland cases
and 3 deaths (these last being refugees from
Cronstado: kovno. oath June to 9Th July.
Isl cases and 4s deaths: Flock oath to Both
June. GG cases and 81 deaths; in Olonez ath
TO 9TH July, 3 cases and deaths.
The following is from the Vossische
st. Petersburg to ward off the spread of the
epidemic are very slight. and consist prin-
cipally in the posting Of placards warning
people not to drink unboiled water. to re-
frain from the use Of liquor and to call a
physician as soon as symptoms OF illness
are felt. This appears TO be OF little use
inasnuch as the people are not provided
with boiled water, nor are the addresses of
DhNStGlanS Cd isl, lz2sr< "A
water and apparatus for distilling water
are kept in certain localities, but they are
Few and far between. Even the policemen
do not seem to know where the city physi-
clans are to be found. The lack of wisdom
of the municipal authorities begins to re-
mind one of Hamburg. The sanitary condi-
tion OF the capital. according to all author
tiles. Is much worse than IL was two years
ago. Large and small canals within the
city limits are stagnant in places and of
course, infected. Adjoining the Kamenoi
prospect the conditions present an sstound-
ing aspect. Where the karpowka canal re-
ceives the waste pipe - m the Hospital of
Peter and Paul, where are the cholera bar
racks, II is stagnant ard emits the foulest
doors. Fifteen yards away another waste
pipe hangs over the canal by the windows
OF the patients. In the principal streets
cesspools exist, and are cleaned by the old
way-with buckets-and the excreta carried
away in open barrels, the contents being
fre4lently spilled along the route. 1t seems
as II some evil genius lowered over the city
and prompted the authorities to allow an
other dreadful epidemic. like that of Ham
burg. TO occur. and the people themselves.
by TIER habits, invite il, for never before
have so many drunken men been seen here
In Other Places.
The Russian government has come 10 an
understanding with the Persian government
for the establishment of a sanitary inspec-
ton Of caravans arriving in Persia from
eastern Asia, in order that the plague NAV
be kept out of Persia, whence It might
easily extend to the trans-Caspian province
I'm Germany. i'm the territory of the Wis.,
tula, there have been during the week
twenty-four cases and eight deaths. prin-
cipaly among raftsmen. Austro-Hungary
had reported in Galicia from the Cd to the
9th of July thirty-two cases and nine
deaths, and since April 100 cases and
102 deaths. The district Of Zalesxczyki has
been declared a center of epidemic in the
sense OF the Dresden convention. and all
passengers coming from Galicia are sub
Jected to sanitary supervision upon enter
Ing other parts OF Austria. From Belgium
1t Is learned that within ten days there had
been forty cases and ten deaths near Lieye
the center OF infection, and fifty des tn.
have occurred along the river Meuse since
June 1. Two cases have been reported in
Holland. said to have arisen frem drinking
the water OF the Mouse, three cases oc-
Cured on the steam er Won Dohs,v