| Show THOUSANDS oF VICTIMS OF ORIENTAL ORIENT At PLAGUE Cholera Continues to Ravage Russia the Mortality Per Percentage Percentage Percentage Being Almost Fifty Per Cent of the Total Cases FULL EXTENT OF THE HORROR IS UNKNOWN Increase In the Number of Dis Districts Districts Districts Affected in Southern Italy a Town of 2000 Peo People People pie Being Almost Deserted NO DANGER ON THIS SIDE St t Petersburg Aug 10 One weeks week cholera record for shows Nho new lien cases of ot cholera and aad 1023 deaths bringing the total number Dumber of cases cime in ID this thin year Je r to Of thelle theise aos have bae liu e died the mortality percent percentage age being belli 44 The figures are ure tho those e by bythe bythe the sanitary bureau covering the week from August 7 1 to August 13 InclusIve he and are ure therefore official Reports from the Red Cross societies indicate that the actual figures are somewhat greater as it is a practical impossibility to register every case in inan inan inan an epidemic of ot such sueh proportions Of the deaths last week were reported from the district of the Don Cossacks 1067 1057 from the district of the Kuban Cossacks 1108 in Yeka province in Samara Samar province in in the Ter ekel Cossack district in in the Crimea where Russians re resort resort resort sort for tOr the summer months month in Tambo province and Z in province The epidemic in St Petersburg shows a decrease only 65 cases and deaths having been reported for the six days ending yesterday at noon com corn compared compared pared to the tile 57 cases and deaths reported the previous week The rhe sanitary authorities s of the city believe that from now on the epidemic will vill continue Its Us natural decrease The total figures figure for St Petersburg since till f fIrst cases a were wen reported June 20 show 2079 oases and 79 deaths The mortality here bere in the capital 35 3 per cent is much less than in the southern provinces owing to the better bett r hospital facilities and the experience gained in handling the first big out outbreak outbreak outbreak break two years rears ago |
