The Archive · 1921

SUMMER DISEASES

A Very Clean Bill So Far: Heat Strokes and Chinese: Local Form of Cholera During the past six weeks of typical summer weatijer there have been remarkably few outbreaks of the usual seasonal diseases among either the European or Chinese sections of the populace.

With the coming of the Great Eeat a number of Occidentals. apparently succumbing to precedent, were admitted to the General Hospital, suffering in most cases from various forms of heatstroke. Since the week-end that hospital has dealt. with a Jarger number of heat victims, but the people who at this time of the year can generally be counted more or less seriously unwell, do not amount to more than a few dozen cases.

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