Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-31
Appalling Details Of Awful
Cholera Scourge In Russia.

I their horses and get away as 500
az they see 4 man or woman on til
| pavement in contortions. and til
| victim is left alone till one Of TIL
sanitary inspectors or policema
| sees him.
| $, HOSPITALS INSPECTED.
When taken to the hospital the pa
tent cannot receive proper caro- be
cause there are not half enough doc
tors; and medical students, though Of
fered good pay by the town. refuse
to help. One doctor often has 400 pa,
tents to look after In a. day. Nurses
are almost unknown; there is nobody
to give the, patients medicine or try
their temperature, so that the result Is
huge percentage of deaths. AS one
harrassed, worked to death doctor said,
IF they get well they do and il they
one pair of hands and legs" Patients
suffering from other complaints have
as bad a time of it as anybody--not
only do5they' get no attention now. but
many of them have been sent away be-
cause they must make; room for chol-
era cases. Several large barracks are
also full :. of thern--but what is that
when hundreds fall i'll daily?
RIGID RULE ABOLISHED.
* There is in Petersburg hospital
regulation to the effect that every pa
tient who dies within "a hours of adj
mittance must be dissected 1t is char
of., ~
regulation was adhered to for several
days after the cholera broke out. so
that the operating theaters were piled
high with dead bodies which nobody
had any time to- dissect.A At last it.
struck one of the inspectors that it Is
Impossible to dissect 400 corpses daily.
and the regulation was abolished.
ALL NIGHT IN CEMETERY.
The victims are buried outside the
town, so that the collins must go by
train. Thirty or forty trucks are filed
with the cot'ins of those who have died
a day or SO before and two or three
passenger saloons are put en- for the
dead peoples friends and relatives
Such astrain started yesterday blythe
Mikolajewsla railway, carrying $50
collins. On arriving at the cemetery it
was found that "a collins, brought the
Though the grave diggers had worked
hard till nishtfall 1t WAS impossible to
bury all, and the rest We're piled up
for the night In the cemetery, the
mourners waiting there till daylight,
afraid that, if they went away. others
would arrive in the morning and get
their dead buried first. These scenes
are. repeated daily and many wait
for a couple of days before they see
their dead relatives and friends buried.
AS all the collins are alike, being paint
ed with tar. and no inscriptions are
put on them, very few people know
which box really contains the remains
of their dearest ones. The result is
that the most terrible scenes of despair
and protestations occur whilst the
wailings of women and children fiji the
air
In the provinces things are no better,
and disinfection is almost unheard of
in small towns. In one village called
Karnki. in the government of Tver, 40
out or 500 died 1t was decided to burn
everything, corpses, houses and barns
together. The police came and. giving
the 80 survivors time 10 get away
threw fire brands into the place. This
drastic measure seemed ito be the only
way of preventing the epidemic spread
ing all over the provinces.