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Show :?LAGUEIS . .On INCREASE Fifty-Three Cholera Cases Are How Reported at Berlin. BERLIN; Sept. 2. Forty-three cases of cholera in all have been reported. Nine persons have died from the disease and many suspicious cases are under observa-... observa-... tton.. The legal and medical machinery for dealing with this invasion of the Asiatic Asi-atic bacilli is now working at full pressure. pres-sure. Prof. Edward Sonnenberg said to the Associated Press last night that no one need fear an epidemic, such as that of lRr.-93. because the health authorities since that time had built up an organisation organisa-tion quite adequate to grasp the beginnings begin-nings of such cholera and to put down the disease with precision and firmness. -,. The health machinery to which Prof. Sonnenberg alluded la working in co-op-. eratlon with the police and other public services. Vlth the exception of the on .Vrteath at Hamburg, the cholera is con. fined to the west Prussian districts, and every case of illness In these districts , must be Immediately reported to 4 he au-thoritlcs. au-thoritlcs. An experienced physician and bacteriologist at once takes the case under un-der observation, and if the symptoms are suspicious, the person Is promptly Iso-; Iso-; f luted. The state hss now detained, under medical med-ical observation, nearly 1000 persons, in-i in-i -eluding the emigrants at . Brunshaven. I Cautions and warnings have been dls- . trlbuted and these have led to sponta ! neous and Intelligent co-operation with ir.the sanitary officers. If the same agen- c. cles and the same spirit . were at work 3 beyond the Russian frontier, the Prussian health authorities would feel satisfied I with what la being done. I A doubt, almost amounting to convlc- . tion. exists that the Russian admlnls-I admlnls-I tratlon has 'not yet been aroused to the danger, and that its task of dealing with the. problem Is much more difficult than that which confronts the authorities here. |