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Show I SPREAD CHOLERA I THROUGH RUSSIA Outbreak in Military Academy Said to Have Originated in Kitchen, Cook Contracting Disease. Blnce the Deglnnlng of the Epidemic There Have Been 5,655 Cases, Re-suiting Re-suiting In 2.118 Deaths and 1,651 Recoveries. St. Petersburg. For the twenty-four twenty-four lmurH cikIIhk nt noon Wednes-(lny, Wednes-(lny, 22,'t now cases nnd ninety-three deaths from cholera Imvo been report- H I'd by tho municipal hospitals. fl' The totals since the beginning of the epidemic are 5,055 cases, 2,108 deaths and 1,051 recoveries. Thcro has been published an of-flclal of-flclal report of the outbreak of chol-era chol-era nt tho Pavlovsk military acad-cmy. acad-cmy. This shows that tho disease originated in the academy kitchen, where a cook wlm wns suffering from Incipient cholera prepared tho food for the cadets for several days. The cook contracted the dlsense In the cholera hospital, where lio was sent cn a mistaken diagnosis. When tho physician discovered his error the cook was discharged and allowed to fl return to tho city. This gross care- lessncss resulted In fifty-eight of the , cadets coming down with the disease. Five of these cases ended fatally. It has been decided to close one of the Important municipal provision markets were eclanllncss nnd saulta- tlon wero being neglected. Iteprc-nctitntlves Iteprc-nctitntlves of Premier Stolypln In-Kpcctcd In-Kpcctcd the other municipal markets. A case of cholera has been reported at the polltcal prison nt Moscow. |