Emery County Progress | 1908-09-26 | Page 3 | Plague Almost beyond Control

cholera situation in st petersburg more serious than visitation of the year 1893 disease also spread ng in manila there being many deaths but health authorities are confident Conf dent of gaining control of the on st petersburg st petersburg Is in the grasp of asiatic cholera which al ready has exceeded in severity and numbers the visitation of 1893 the disease is increasing daily at an alarming fate and unless the authora ties show in the future a much greater degree of ability to cope with the sit nation than they have in the past there Is every reason to fear that it will get out of hand the government s threat to apply the provisions of mar bial law has driven the municipality officials to bend all their energies to clearing the city of the scourge the aldermanic council has voted to enlarge the hospital space to pur chase and distribute disinfectants the supply of which in st petersburg Is well nigh exhausted and to expedite the interment of bodies which has been notoriously slow the dead bouses are overcrowded and many orphes ue un burled manila fifty eight new cases of cholera and nineteen deaths are re ported for the twenty four hours end ing at 8 monday morning the infected areas in the city and suburbs are spreading somewhat but the health authorities are still bonfi dent that they will be able to speedily gain control of the situation governor general smith has sum boned a special meeting of the mem bers of the philippine commission to discuss the plague situation and to lay plans for an extension of the cam laign now being waged against the disease federal troops are guarding the sources ot the city s water supply to prevent the throwing of any infected matter into the water and it Is probable that the force thus engaged will be largely reinforced