Logan Republican | 1903-01-06 | Page 2 | Epidemic of Cholera in the Philippines

Epidemic of Cholera in the Philippines. When R. O. Case, a stationery dealer In the city of Manila, left that city for Seattle, tho average number of deaths from cholera was thirty a day. Cholera Is raging In tb Philippines Philip-pines In a moro aggravated form than at any other time since American occupation oc-cupation occurred. Mr. Case says of tho epidemic: "There has not been such nn epidemic epi-demic of tho disease In the Islands, the natives say. In ninny years. In 1887 ,thoy had their worst sloge, and then, they tell you, when the death rnto' reached ton a day they wero fearful. However, for a week or ten days it did reach forty a day in Manila, and what it was In the other parts of tho Island they are unable to say."