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Show PLAGUE ALMOST BEiwrai Cholera Situation in St. Petersburg More Serious Than Visitation of the Year 1893. Disease Also Spreading In Manila There Delng Many Deaths, But Health Authorities Are Confident of Gaining Control of the. Situation. St. Petersburg. SL Petersburg Is th tho grasp of Asiatic cholera, which already al-ready has exceeded In severity nnd numbers tho visitation or 1S93. Tho disease Is Increasing dally nt nn alarming rate, and unless thu authorities authori-ties show In tlio future a much greater degrco of ublllty to copo with the situation sit-uation than they hnvo in tlio past there is ovory renson to fear that It-will It-will get out of hand. Tho government 'a threat to apply the provisions of martial mar-tial lnw has driven tho municipality olllclals to bend all their energies to clearing the city of the scourge. Tho nldurmnnlc council has voted $250,000 to enlnrgo the hospital space, to pur-chaso pur-chaso and dlstrlbuto disinfectants, tho supply of which In St. Petersburg Is well-nigh exhausted, and to cxpedlto the Interment of bodies, which has been notoriously slow. Tho dead houses nro overcrowded and many corpses Ho unburled Slnnlla. Fifty-eight now cases of cholera and nineteen deaths nro reported re-ported ror tho twenty-rour hours end ing at 8 o'clock Monday morning. The Infected nreas In the city nnd suburbs nro spreading somewhat, hut the health authorities nro still confident confi-dent thai they will ho able to speedily gain control or the situation. Coventor flcnornl Smith has summoned sum-moned a special meeting or tho mem-hers mem-hers of tho Philippine commission, to discuss the plague situation nnd to lay plans for an extension of tho entnpnlgn entn-pnlgn now being waged against tho disease. Federal troops nro guarding tho sources of tho city's water supply to prevent tho throwing of nny Infected mntter Into tho water, nnd It Is prob-xbjo prob-xbjo lint tho fnrco thus engnged will bo largely reinforced. |
