A treatise on Asiatic cholera / edited and prepared by Edmund Charles Wendt, in association with Drs. John C. Peters, Ely McClellan, John B. Hamilton, and Geo. M. Sternberg.

Edmund Charles Wendt

Date:: 1885

Credit: A treatise on Asiatic cholera / edited and prepared by Edmund Charles Wendt, in association with Drs. John C. Peters, Ely McClellan, John B. Hamilton, and Geo. M. Sternberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto.

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$ease. It then spread from Wctljankaja to the surrounding villages, and was declared epidemic. ' Dr. Koch and six army surgeons became vic- tims to the epidemic, the priest died, the Cossacks who attended the sick or removed the dead died; almost all died who in any way came in contact with the sick or dead.' Dr. Dcjiner tlien arrived at the conclusion that the only means for suppressing the disc^ase was quarantining; and on the 11th of December, Dr. Depner, with Colonel Preibanow, instituted meas- ures. He could not prosecute further observations, however, for he him- self fell sick with the plague. 1'hese facts being telegraphed to the Em- peror of Russia, the Imperial Committee of jMinisters was convened, and the following rules were adopted, which received the imperial sanction: 1. {a.) The inhal)itants of the colony of Wetljankaja shall ])e trans- ferred and distributed as shall seem best after a careful examination of the local requirements, the limit of the quarantine not to be overstepped. (6.) The appraisement of the movable and immovable property de- stroyed by fire, as likewise the fixing of the indemnities to be paid to the owners, shall be reserved for a special commission, under the presidency of the Governor of Astrakhan, with the participation of members of the Cossack administration and the Ministry of the Finances, the Ministry of the Domains, and the Ministry of the Interior, according to regulations which shall be prepared on the spot by the aforesaid commission. (6'.) This commission shall be charged with the execution of all the measures that may be necessary for the destruction by fire of the colony of Wetljankaja, as likewise of all measures necessary to sup]ily the popu- lation transferred from that colony Avith food, under(;lothing, aiul warm garments; to provide for the treatment of the sick, etc. 2. That the acting Minister of the Interior may be authorized to ex- tend the measures rcfiirred to concerning the colony of Wetljankaja to other villages, as well as to isolated buildings everywhere, to such extent as shall be deemed indis^iensable. I$