The ' bivese Hospital has received information in regard to the death rate in the northern part of the Settlement, namely North Fakion Road, North Shansi Road eto, which has bee abnormally high, and was informed that the Health Officer of the Municipal Council had found plague vermin op the dead bodies of rate. Mr. Shen Top-be on once instructed the three Chinese qualified physicians to make investigations in all' those suspected quarters. They will again be sccompanied by foreign lady doctors and verne members of the Ningpo Guild who have consented to render voluntary service.
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