Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — CHOLERA RAGING IN RUSSIA. [ARTICLE]

CHOLERA RAGING IN RUSSIA.

Alarming Reports of the Spread of the Dread Disease. Cholera has made its appearance again in St. Petersburg, and it is known that fatal cases are of daily occurrence, although the authorities have not resumed their policy of last year of making regular daily announcement of the new cases and deaths. At present the authorities are pursuing a policy of suppression and withhold from the public all information as to the spread of the disease. Very disquieting rumors have been received from the interior of Russia, and the Minister of the Interior is taking action which indicates that the Government must possess special information of the gravest character. The Minister has ordered the reopening oi the medico-sanitary stations in the Volga provinces, where the cholera carried off many thousands last year, and special steamers vfith sanitary staffs will cruise in the river, stopping along the Volga to pick up any cholera patient or any dead from cholera-stricken vessels plying on* that stream. The Government is also causing to be formed sanitary commissions which will look after the health of the people at the points to be reached through the railway system of Russia. {