Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-09-21
Deaths in St, Petersburg
Alone Mount to Awful Total
of 200 a Day While Horrible
Scourge Remains Unchecked
TWELVE HUNDRED NEW
CASES IN EMPIRE DAILY
Unbelievable Sanitary Condi-
tons and PitifuI Inefficiency
of Municipal officials Re0d-
els Science Helpless.

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IBy Morning journal special Leased wIrel
st. Petersburg, Sept. 20.-St Peters
burg is in the grasp of Asiatic cholera,
which already has exceeded in severity
and numbers the visitation Of 1893.
The disease is increasing daily at an
alarming rate, and unless the author
ites show in the future much great
er degree of ability to cope with the
situation than they have in the past,
there is every reason to fear that it
will get out of hand.
The governments threat to apply
the provisions of martial law has
driven the municipality officials to
bend all their energies to clearing the
city of the scourgr. The aldermanic
council today voted $250,000 to en-
large the hospital space, TO purchase
and distribute disinfectants, the supply
of which in st Petersburg is well nigh
exhausted and 10 expedite the inter
mcnt OF bodies, which has been nOtO-
riousy slow The dead houses are
overcroWded and many corpses lie un-
buried.
Under his authority as the prefect
Of st Petersburg General Dracheffsky
on Saturday prohibited the sale of
liquor throughout the city, including
the Vodka shops. until september %,
and he has further ordered that here
after the sale Of liquor shall be sus-
pended at p. m on saturday until
10 a. IN. Monday This action has
been taken in order to diminish alco-
holc eXcesses, which very materially
increase the liability to cholera infec-
ton and the general spread of the
disease.
schools Turned Into Hospitals.
A beginning was made today, when
public schools were transformed into
hospital wards. number of the
grammar schools were closed and
5000 students sent to their homes. The
department Of war has opened stores
To supply immediate needs, and army
Held kitchens have been dispatched 10
the poorer quarters 10 dispense free
food
The situation assumes a grayer as
pcct from the appearance today of |
very virulent type of the disease In
two cases, of which death followed !
within fifteen minutes of the first /
symptoms.
As announced by the official bale |
tins, the cases numbered 349 anG the /
deaths 12S during the twenty .our |
hours between Friday noon and sat I
Wday noon. This was a considerahl" /
decrease from the preceding day put
there is doubt of the accuracy of the |
official statement The record for tn" |
same twenty-four hours ascertained |
lrom unofficial but reliable sources
shows the actual number to have beeh
far in excess of that Whether or
not however. there was an actual de-
crease, the disease resumed its march |
on Saturday, the statistics posted |
showing thar from Saturday noon un-
M sunday noon there We're 39S cases
and 1871 deaths, this being the largest
number so far
All Varieties Of the Plague.
II Is feared that the cholera viii last
another fortnight. being figured on
the basis of former epidemics. All
varieties of Asiatic cholera have now
developed here. there being numerous
Eases of the Algid type, which Is aC-
'ompanicd by the greatest suffering
The metropolitan Of St Petersburg
caused prayers for deliverance TO be
read throughout the diocese today. in
which the pestilence is described as
punishment for the peoples lawless-
less
Premier Stolypin has sharply rep
manded the municipal officials for
he appalling conditions. At Obuchoig
hospital, which he visited on Satur-
lay. he found that three bath rooms
We're doing service for 500 patients
ne physicians were pOwerless TO car
y out the proper course of treatment
mi the mortality at this hospital has
been three times that of other hos
itals. Three Of the nurses at this
Institution were stricken with the dis
dse Yesterday. making a total OF nine
nurses now under treatment for chol-
.ra
Practically nothing has been done
ip TO the present time TO put the
iiE 8 market places in a sanitary con-
'ton. they are places Of indescrib-
"'" filth. with the atmosphere rerk-
ns with foul odors one hundred
arloads of fruit have been auction-d
iI ANA forwarded to Warsaw. wilma
"d other towns. which the cholera
a~ not invaded and the possibility Of
'ir'tion from this source is very +,
feat
As city 81. Petersburg Is Roefuily