The health bill of the Terrible also, is not what it should be. From all causes the ship's company has been reduced by close on thirty men since leaving Durban, and of these thirty (nearly) deaths five, within a recent brief period, were due to typhoid. One, a senior Engineer, died after an illness of six days; the significance of the brevity of a fatal typhoid case is that for days previously the patient feeling only "seedy" is a distributing centro for typhoid germs and so a grave danger to the community of which he is a member. Thus the suggestion that the ship is infected may be well grounded and should not be summarily dismissed. If the cases continue to appear the ship should be emptied, and thoroughly disinfected.
One of the sailors injured by the recent: explosion on tha Décidée died at the Naval Hospital, the other, it will be remembered, succumbed before he could be brought ashore. A Chefoo lady of French nationality, Madame Genin, on a visit to Weihaiwei, desiring to stand by the grave of her late husband's countryman, met with a serious accident. Two graves had been dug not many feet apart and just as the burial service was concluded Madame Genin slipped into one of these. Fortunately, she held en umbrella, which acting parachute-wise, broke the fall, which resulted in a dislocated ankle.
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