Serious Epidemic?in the Wa-Han Cities 73 4
From Our Own Correspondent Wuchang, July 17.
To add to the anxiety of the in-Gabitants of ithe Wu-han cities, disease has broken out among Chang Ching-yao's. men and they are reported to be dying by hundreds. At first it was thought that the cause of all these fatalities was cholera, but I hear that the disease has been diagnosed as a particularly malignant form of malaria, which nevertheless appears to -be about as fatal in its effects as its more notorious brother. The epidemic has spread to the civil populace and people are dying on the streets of Hankow and Wuchang.
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