CHOLERA IN RUSSA.
DEPLORABLE. CONDITIONS. COAL FAMINE IMMINENT. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright St. Petersburg, August 9. The Government nas tardily sent Professor Rain and a numerous staff to the colliery districts to arrest the epidemic of cholera.
The ignorance of the peasants and the absence of medical and sanitary organisation is deplorable. The lives of doctors and nurses are in constant peril from the peasants, who believe they sow the germs of disease. Owing, to the outbreak of cholera in Russia there is a lack of harvesters, and a coal famine is imminent. The percentage of deaths in many villages amounts to fifty. There are above a thousand cases in St. Petersburg hospitals.
A FATAL DRINK. Received August 10, 9.40 p.m. St. Petersburg, August 10. It is estimated that there were 57,000 deaths from cholera in Russia in 1910. The coal-miners subscribed £60,000 sterling towards the campaign funds. Eighteen miners at Ekalerinoslaff attended a funeral feast and drank a decoction of manure as an anti-cholera charm. Fifteen succumbed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 105, 11 August 1910, Page 5
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167CHOLERA IN RUSSA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 105, 11 August 1910, Page 5
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