Show A thousand suspected cases are under observation berlin sept 1 forty three cases ot cholera in all have reported nine persons have died from the disease and many suspicious cases are under observation the legal and medical machinery for dealing with this invasion of the asiatic bacillus Is now working at full pressure prof edward sonnenberg said to the associated press tonight that no one need fear a epidemic such as that of 1892 93 because tho health authorities ties since that time had built up organizations quite adequate to grasp the beginnings of such cholera and to put down the disease with precision and firmness the health machinery to which prof sonnenberg alluded is working in cooperation with the police and other public services ath the exception of the one death at hamburg the cholera is confined to the nest prussian districts and every case of illness in these districts must immediately be reported to the authorities an experienced physician and bacteriologist at once takes the case under oa and 1 the symptoms are suspicious the person is promptly isolated the state has now detained under medical observation marly 1000 persons including the emigrants at bruns haven cautions and warnings have been distributed and these have led to spontaneous and intelligent cooperation with the sanitary officers it the same agen clea and the same spirit acro at work beyond the russian frontier the prussian health administration bould feel satisfied with what Is being done A doubt almost amounting to conviction exists that the russian administration hai not yet been aroused to the danger and that its task of dealing with the problem Is much more difficult man that which confronts the authorities here the correspondent alws the declaration of the russian plague that since april 21 no cases of cholera have occurred in the russian empire and that the suspicious cases reported in vilna glodz abadom tula and other places were as bacteriological investigations showed not where then says the paper did the cholera now in west prussia come from as a matteroli mat terol fact it goes on to say the prussian health officials were apprehensive 1 of the existence of cholera since the beginning of the year and their reports showed that the pestilence had left arabia and was marchine over syria aff sopo tamla and persia thence across he caspian sea into european russia and onward to the volga the beerse today felt the effect of the prevalence of cholera especially shipping companies the shares of which tell from three to four per cent |