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Show CHOLERA i People Dying by Thousands Thou-sands in the Cities of Russia ' - St. Petersburg, July 27. The extent of the cholera epidemic Is revealed In figures made public today by tho government sanitary commission. The stricken region now Includes 42 proinces and territories of European Russia, and. since the outbreak of the disease last May, there have been a total of 371, C52 cases with 10.651 deaths. Recently there has been a startling j increase in the number of victims. During the week ending July 23, no less than 13.374 cases were reported report-ed and of these 5,979 terminated fatally fat-ally Some time ago, the scourge made its appearance In this city and for the last fortnight there has been a daily average of forty cases and twelve deaths in the cap.tal Yesterday there were f4 cases and 14 deaths report-' report-' cd here. |