The Forrest City times., 1894-08-03
TIE PLAGUE ABROAD.

WASHINGTON, Aug. LA report was ~eceiyed at the Marine Hospital bureau ,resterdav from Surgeon Irwin at Ber- i;r on the progress of cholera in Flu rone for the week ending July Is. aThe disease" he writes, ''has pro- crossed materially since his last re- Fort. especially in St. Petersburg, wbere it has assumed alarming pro- ! ,,ortions. It continues at Cronstadt. and is reported to be present in Fin land. where it was never before seen. Tn Galicia there were many more cases than last week, and new cases have appeared in Germany and the Netherlands. In Belgium cholera still continues, especially along the Meuse, which river is undoubtedly in- fected On the whole. the outlook is rather alarming, much more so than it was at this time last year.
 Germany-Accordlng to official re- ports up to July Is there were in the territory of the vistula 24 cases and deaths. principally among raftsmen.
 Austria a-Hungary-In Galicia. from the 3d to the 9th of July, there were g eases and deaths. Since April :. 199 cases and 1O2 deaths in Galicia.
 Belgium-As reported from Liege. there were during the last ten days, in that vicinity. 40 cases and 10 deaths from cholera. None of these cases were brought into Belgium. and there is no doubt that the disease has been epi- demic there for the last two years. It is officially stated that since the 10th of July Liege has been the principal center of infection in Belgium. cholera being found in the towns along the Mouse. On this river, between the lst of June and the 4th of July 59 des ths occurred.
 Netherlands--Two cases of cholera are reported in Holland, one at Elslo, province of Lemberg, and the other at Masstricht, both said to have been poisoned with water from the river Mouse.
 In Holland the province of Liege is regarded'as infected and so treated.
 Sweden--In the quarantine at Fejau, twenty-two passengers of the steamer Von Dobeln were detained as suspi- cous, and among of them cholera supervened.
 France-IIe has been unable te se- cure any reliable information as to the cholera in Finesterre and Morbihian. but invites attention to the great in- crease of the death rate in Paris. The death rate in that city for the twenty seventh week of the current year is exceptionally high, the number of l50 more than during the previous week and B above the average for the time of year.
 Russia-From Poland cholera seems to have spread with the advance of warm weather to the northwestern part of the empire, and serious epi- demic is now in progress in St. Peters burg and Cronstadt. Simultaneously with the news of the appearance of the cholera in Germany report has come to hand which warrants the belief that the outbreak of cholera in St. Peters burg is much more serious than the official announcements indi- cate. The disease had taken hold of all the districts of the city with the single exception of that known as the Admiralty quarter, and 1t has also spread to the suburbs. Not only the authorities and the public generally, but even members of the medical faculty are beginning to be se- riously alarmed.
 United States Minister White. under date of July Is, telegraphs that there were 200 cases on the l7th and 52 deaths, with 7S7 still sick. The epi- demic, he adds, is serious, there being more than l,5OO cases in the city since July l.
 The Vossiche Zeitung under date of July l5, says:
 The precautions taken in St. Peters burg to ward off the epidemic are very slight, and consist principally in the posting of placards warning people not to drink unboiled water. to refrain from the use of liquor and to call physician as soon as symptoms of ill., ness are felt. This appears to be of little use, inasmuch as the people are not provided with boiled water, nor are the addresses of physi- cans given. Vessels filled with ooiied water and apparatus for dis .iiiing water are kept in certain localities. but they are few and far be- tween. Even the policemen do not seem to know where the city physi- cians are to be found. It seems as if some evil genius lowered over the city and prompted the authorities to allow another dreadful epidemic like that of hamburg to occur; and the people themselves. by their habits, invite 1t, Tor Gpval. bafo,a baxya c<, many 1r.unlxpu