The Influenza Epidemic.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIII, Issue 6532, 17 February 1890, Page 3

The Influenza Epidemic.

The St. Petersburg conespondent of the'Time3. writing on November 29, says: —The .epidemio called by, the doctors influenza, apparently for want of a better name, continues to rago in St ; Petersburg as strongly)ns ever,; and evpn appears to bo spreading over the country,! Although it is said that a similinr phenomenon occured some SO or 40 years' ago, nothing so gcuerat, so widespread and remarkable as j the present diseafe bas ever been experience ed herb before. * Froin members of the Imperial Family and foreign ambassadors, -through all 'classes," down to workmen and .beggars; no. one escapes, from which it is. naturally inferred to be infectious,- - It; is not fatal, and lasts in mostcßse3 only a iew.days, .Several Qrhnd Dukes, are affect®di,,or f just recovering ; and the British and thVm6mbers of hirf'stiiff^nre'nearly all ill. Wherever one'goes'in every house, in everyiamily, somebody is sick, Forty-fivJ men werd taken ill in one day in the telegraph, department j as many nS 170 workman in ' one factory ; while some mills and workshops ; have liad to curtail- work, take on hundreds of extra'hands, or supend * operation altogether. In consequence of all thisj *«st,'' Petersburg is in a singular state of melancholy: and depression, and quite unfit to celebi ate to morrow the jubilee of Rubinstein and , Russian music. Everybody is longing ' for frost and winter—the salvation of the unhealthy capital on the Neva; but they, do not come, except for a few hours at a' time, and have rarely been so late in setting in ns this . autumn. ; From' Moscow we hear that the disease is also making it apperance there, and a , traveller just arrived from Tomsk; in Siberia, brings the same sorrowful tale, j In St. Petersburg ii is said thiit ipOO cases are medically .authenticated,' which,, of course, does not ; include, all who have suffered or are still suffering. ! ! authorities identity the malady with the I Dengtie fever prevalent in Greece and | Turkeyr The symptoms are" fever and [headache, accompanied by a running cold. -T- .... •