The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-08
st. PETERSBURG
AND CHOLERA
A ViruIent Type of MaIady That
Brings Death in Fifteen
Minutes.

ST. PETERSBURG, September 90
st. Petersburg is in the grasp of tn
| Asiatic cholera, which already has ex
ceeded in severity and numbers the Wis
itation of 1893. The disease is increas
ing daily at an alarming rate, and I'm
less the authorities show in the future
much greater degree of ability tc
cope with the situation than they have
in the past there is every reason tc
fear that it will get out of hand.
The government threat to apply the
provisions of martial law has driven
the municipality officials to bend all
their energies to clearing the city Of
the scourge. The aldermanic council
today voted $500 to enlarge the
hospital space, to purchase and dis
tribute disinfectants, the supply of
which in St. Petersburg is well nigh
exhausted. The dead houses are over
crowded and many corpses lie I'M
buried
Under his authority as project of St.
Petersburg, General Drachetfsky on
Saturday prohibited the sale of liquor
throughout the city, including the gov
eminent vodka shops, until September
-. and he has further ordered that
after that the sale Of liquor shall be
suspended at p. m. on Saturday until
10 a, m. Monday.
Die in Fifteen Minutes.
A beginning was made today when
public schools were transformed into
hospital wards A number Of the gram
mar schools were closed and 1000 stu
dents sent to their homes. The de-
partment of war has opened stores to
supply immediate needs, and army field
kitchens have been dispatched TO the
poorer quarters to dispense free food.
The situation assumes a graver as
pect from the appearance today of
very virulent type of the disease in
two cases of which death followed
within fifteen minutes of the first
symptom.
AS announced by the official bulle-
tins, the cases numbered $40 and the
deaths 128 during the twentyfour
hours between Friday noon and Satur
day noon. The record for the same
twenty four hours aseertained from I'M
official, but reliable, sources, shows the
actual number to have been far in
excess of that From Saturday noon
until Sunday noon there were 39S
eases and al deaths, this being the
largest number so far.
May Last Two Weeks. !
It is feared that the cholera will last
another fortnight, being figured on the
oasis of former epidemics. All varie-
les of Asiatie cholera have now devel-
,ped here, there being numerous cases
# the Algid type, which is aceompa
lied by the greatest suffering.
The metropolitan of St. Petersburg
.aused prayers for deliverance to be
cad throughout the diocese today. IN
which the pestilence is described as
punishment for the people s lawless-
less.
Premier stolypin has sharply repri-
handed the municipal officials for the
-ppalling conditions. At Obuchofg hos
,ital. which he visited on Saturday, he
ound that three bathrooms were doing
ervice for 300 patients. Three of the
nurses at this institution were stricken
With the disease yesterday, making a
otal of nine nurses now under treat
nent for cholera.
Practically nothing has been done up
0 the present to put the city's market
laces in a sanitary condition; they are
laces of indescribable filth One hun
red carloads of fruit have been auc-
toned off and forwarded to Warsaw,
lima and other towns, which the ehol-
"a has not invaded, and the POSSIBLE
" of infection from this source is
cry great.
Careless With Cholera.