The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-04
SEE CHOLERA SCARE
German Expert Predicts Epi-
demic in Europe.
Physician Narrowly Escapes Death a.
Result Of Tales Of Murder BE.
'ieved by Mcb-Bad Status
In Cars Land.


Derlin.--"Asiatic cholera undoubted.
ly will be epidemic in Europe next
spring and summer and the terrible
scourge will come from Russia. where
cholera is raging in many localities.
Notwithstanding the official statement
that the empire is free from the dis.
ease"
This is the opinion of Prof Rhein-
furth. a noted German medical ex
pert. An article based on his personal
observations during recent visit to
Russia appears in the Nord Deutsche
Zeitung.
"The methods of the Russian bu-
reaucracy in dealing with the people
in the districts affected with the
scourge certainly are open to criti-
cism." writes the professor in his ar
ticle. "The people are kept in dense
ignorance of even the most common
means of fighting cholera and of rules
governing cleanliness, dirt and sani-
tary conditions. They are ruled
through their superstitious fears and
politics enters largely the official
fight against the disease.
1T is through the ignorant and su-
perstitious ideas of the people that the
political factions in Russia wreak re-
venge on the government by harass-
ing, even imperiling the lives of gov
ernment agents. The result is that
careful measures against cholera are
carried out in careless, perfunctory
manner. Thousands die who under
another system could have been saved.
But what of that? 1t is only peasants.
Jews-mere human animals-and so
it goes on. faction fighting faction. and
all fighting the government"
To illustrate his view the professor
relates an incident of which he was a
witness and which occurred a few
weeks ago on the island of Taahak.
in the great Russian fishing district
of Pskov
when / arrived at the island chol-
era had broken out among the fisher
men," writes Prof Rheinfurth "A
DR.. Voljanski had been sent by the
government to the official barrack
hocpitaI to occict tho IocaI phvcioiou
Several wooLs rravious,v nortv -,
students from the University of Dor
pat had visited the island to study the
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had been sent by the government to
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