TERRIBLE EPIDEMIC.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 892, 11 August 1910, Page 5

TERRIBLE EPIDEMIC.

RUSSIANS DYING LIKE FLIES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright St. Petersburg, August 0. Owing to tho cholera in Russia, thero is a lack of harvesters, and a coal famine is imminent. ' Fifty per cent, of the persons affected have died in many of the villages. Thero are above a thousand cases in the St. Petersburg hospitals. ' After some tardiness and delay, the Government lias sent professors and nursing start's to the colliery districts to endeavour to arrest the epidemic. The ignorance of tho peasants and the absence of medical and sonitary organisation have been deplorable. - The lives of doctors and nurses are m constant peril from the peasants, who believe that they sow the germs of the disease. TREMENDOUS ' MORTALITY. (Rec. August 10, 9 p.m.) St. Petersburg, August 10. , It is 'estimated that 57,000 deaths from cholera have occurred in Russia durinj the preseut epidemic. The coal-owners, who have been especially hard hit by the outbreaks at the mines at Donetz.'on the River Don, have subscribed ,£60,000 for an anti-cholera campaign. , Eighteen miners at Ekaterinoslav, in South Russia, while at a funeral feast, drank a decoction of manure as an anticholera charm. Fifteen of them succumbed. .