The following is from the " Hankow Daily News" February 3
Work has already been begun on the construction of isolation camps and, at recent meeting of the Municipal Conrcil, farther measures of a really practical natare were pat forward.
The most notable of these was the establishment of a laundry on one of the Foreiga Concessions and although we are unaware of the plague-germ carrying capacity of clothes which have been thoroughly lsundried, still we think that this scheme, even apart from plague, is one which should be well supported. inefficiency of the Jocsl laundry-man is well known and in past years many residents ba suffered, not only from badly washed clothes, but from minor ailments caused by contamination of foreign clothes with those of Chinese being washed together in the same establishment.
The suggestion pat forward by the Manicipal Councillors to provide an establishment where foreign clothes slone would be washed is one that should meet with the approval of everyone, and withal prove a not unprofitable undertaking.
Whether this step will prevent the spread of plague which has not yet attacked and we do not believe will attack us, still it isa measure for future comfort for which we ought to be truly thankful to its inceptors, A letter from the Rev. W. C. Long-den of Chinkiang, dated Febroary 6, latest news from Pochow is that a million people in that district will die between this and harvest, it not helped; that it is now " common sight to see by the roadside the corpses of those who have been frozen or starved to death; snd that " fall of snow was increasing the sufferings, This lest came to us from the Rev. G, P. Bostick about a week ago."
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