The following correspondence is published for general informa-on American Consulate-Generel, Shanghai, October 5, 1925.
Sm—T have the honour to. enclose herewith a copy of a letter dated September 12, 1925, received from The Dearborn Independent of Dearborn, Michigan, asking verification of a statement recently published in that journal regarding public signs in Shanghai of the nature {dicated in the enclosure.
1 personally have been in Shanghat for over seven years and have never seen any signs of this nature, Dut before replying to the inguiry I should appreciate an offctal statement from the Council as to whether any such signs actually exist oF not.
Thanking you in anticipation, T have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant,.E. Jacoss, American Consul-in-Charge, Fessenven, Esq, Municipal Laboratory, and ar one death" Siz ailier Foreiga cases were reported from outside the Settlement. In all cases where information was obtainable the diseae was attributed to the consumption of unsterilised raw fruit and vegetables, and fly-infected food.
Among the Chinese, 196 cases vere notified from within the Settlement, 83 of which were confirmed in the Municipal Laboratory, and_ there were 20 deaths. rom outside the Settlement there were, besides, 369 cases reported and 37 death Cholera is endemic in Shanghai and other parts of China. The organism persist in "carriers" and thus survive from season to season, so that when certain conditions favourable, they become virulent and cause'ani outbreak of the dis ease. Water and food supplies then become contaminated from the excretions of the infected and the disease spreads.
Mixed Court Report for Municipal Council.
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