The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-08-25
PEST IN ITALY IS
|. SPREADING FAST
10000 Flee IN Panic From
| 1 Stricken City.
MALAl1N NOT REACHED ROME
Dsaths sfdf Week In Russia Number
3o,72S-Epldemic on Decrease IN
OF. Petersburg--Ameriea
Not Endangered.
nALARA NOT REACHED ROME

Washington, d. c., Aug. 20.-With.
out attempting to make predictions
regarding the Introduction of cholera
in this country from Europe, officials
of the public health service are exert.
ing themselves to the utmost In the
maintenance of precautions. For the
past year medical officer of the bu-
reau has been stationed at Libau, the
only Russian port from which Rus.
sian immigrants embark direct for
the United States, and for the past
month special vigilance has been ex-
erted to prevent infected Immigrants
from coming through the ports oof
other countries! So far no cases have
been developed in the United States.
London, Aug. 20.-Special: Under
orders from the British health author.
tiles the English officers are today
carefully examining arrivals from the
continents to guard against the chol
era invasion from which $4,000 deaths
have occurred. hi 9{s.
Rome, Aug. 20.-The cholera cpl
demic is rapidly spreading in southern
Italy, but rumors that 1t had also
reached this city are without founda,
ton. Not single case has been re.
ported here and the health officials
are on the qui viye for any appear
ance Of the malady.
Twenty Thousand Flee From TRAM.
According to the latest reports the
disease Is Of most virulent type and
accompanied by high death rate.
Thirty deaths are reported at Trani.
The town is being rapidly depopulated
because OF the panic among the in
Ihabitants, 10000 of whom have already
fed. Similar conditions prevail in
Barietta.
The authorities are greatly con-
cerned over the possibility Of a still
wider spread of the epidemic as a re-
suit of this flight Of people from the
disease centers.
1928 Deaths In Russia.
st. Petersburg. Aug. 20.-The record
of the cholera epidemic for the past
week shows 23,994 new cases and TO-
1923 deaths, which brings the total
number Of cases for the year up To
the tremendous total of 1895. The
percentage of mortalities is placed at
!44.6.
There are indications of a decrease
I'm the epidemic in this city. Two hun
ldred and sixty-five new cases and
1888 deaths have been reported, where
las in the previous week there were
l677 cases and 283 deaths.
United States ls Immune.
New York, Aug. 20.-There is not
the slightest possibility of the cholera
plague spreading to the United States,
the quarantine measures now in force
here and In Russia being SO effective
as to preclude any danger of Russian
immigrants bringing over the dread
disease.
EmIsrants sorutinlzed Closely.
Doctor Doty, health officer of the
port, said that conditions in Russia
and Italy have been anticipated from
information received and during the
past year persons coming from those
countries had been subjected to the
closest scrutiny.
As measure of safety all persons
looming from Russia are held at yari-
Gus ports of departure for five days
under medical supervision before they
ARE allowed to embark for this coun-
try. Persons infected with cholera
develop the disease within five days.