Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-09-21

pearance among the poor people herd
| ed In wretched tenements, but il is
now spreading to the better classes
ard it has broken out in the barracks
among the troops.
City Had Ample Warming.
The authorities had every warning
of the coming of the disease and the
utter inability to take proper precau-
tions to prevent its spread has brought
out a storm of indignant criticism. As
an example of the inefficiency and
negligence displayed 1t is sufficient to
cite the fact that many cholera cases
have been conveyed to the hospitals in
city cabs, which are very numerous in
st. Petersburg. after which these same
cabs were permitted without disinfec-
tion to return to their work ON the
streets.
The cholera was first reported this
year about the end of July. 1t was OF
a virulent type and the percentage of
mortality was high, The disease
spread rapidly into the provinces
along the Volga, down both coasts OF
the Caspian and in the territory of the
| Don Cossacks: in other words, in the
eastern and southeastern districts OF
Em cpean Russia.
Awful Mortality Record.
| BY the end of August there was an
average of 1900 cases reported each
week. with a mortality of more than
so per cent. on August Ia it was an
nouIced that St. Petersburg was
thrt atened with the scourge, and on
September S it was definitely estab-
lisltG that the disease was in the cap
ltal, On September 10 there were
| fifty cases there, and the disease was
prevf lent in all quarters of the city.
The record of cases and deaths from
thai date until the present showed
Alarming Increases, and it is the gen.
cral belief here that the health au-
thorlties. in a desire to prevent the
people from becoming panic stricken
are holding their official reports down
to 4 minimum.
Ad"loes from all parts of Russia
SHOW that the alarm is very general
anG rhat there is good reason for it.
At Moscow a quarantine has been es-
| tablished at all railway stations, and
passengers are placed under the
strictest surveillance. Up to the pres
ent Moscow has been immune. A
death has been reported at Helsing-
| fors from the disease and the Russian
steamers have been denied entrance
to Viborg harbor for evading quaran.
tine at Trangsund, a roadstead eight
miles from that port.
Several suspicious cases have beer
reported in the Finnish archipelago
where the imperial family are cruis.
| ing, and measures have been taken tC
| limit navigation, only vessels having q
practicing physician on board being
permitted to sail in Finnish waters.
Twenty-nine cases and six deaths
were reported from Odessa on Satur-
day German authorities have taker
precautions to Eevent the disease
crossing the !. frontier. Austria has
done he same thing; Sweden and
othtf nearby countries have declared q
quarantine against Russia, and France
is ready to meet any exigencies that
may arise.
CHOltId Hldue It's appearance III
Russia last year, but it was confined
to the southern and southeastern
provinces and did not get to the cap
ital. The cold weather during the lat
ter part of October and the earlier
weeks of November checked its spread
and by December 1st it had practically
dis5 ppeared. This year, however, il
has had what may be termed a flying
start. and it is sweeping over the city
in a manner to bring alarm to all
classes. 1t Is believed now that the
waters of the Neva are contaminated
becently steamers have been supply
ing boiled water to the river barges
and large force of physicians have
been drafted to make thorough dis
infection of the quarter where the dis
ease is supposed to have originated
ana where it received its strongest inn
pc'iIs,