Dr. W. S. New stated yesterday afternoon that both the Chinese In-factious Diseases Hospital in Thibet Road and the Tientsin Road Hospital were full of cholera cases, there being 270 altogether. Since the epidemic started last month, he said, there had been to date 72 deaths out of around 700 confirmed cases. He agreed that the mortality was on the low side, and suggested that the epidemic could be more effccively countered if the health authoies, foreign and Chinese, cooperated. As it was, practically every case was brought ints. the Settlement, there being only ten or 0 at the Nantao Isolation Hospital. Dr. New added thit the action of the Munfefpal health authorities The time is not far distant. when the local motorist will be able to slip out of the Shanghai Club at 7.55 p.m. and reach the front of his house away out in the heart of the western district just as the eight o'clock dinner gong sound:
Such a prospect is held out by the proposed construction of a magnificent speedway from the Bund to Avenue Foch, which will serve alike the western parts of the Settlement and the French Concession, Avenue Edward VIL is being straightened and, where necessary, widened, and Manila Road is to be dealt with in a similar manner.
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