An informant points out that our statement that the late Mrs. James Johnston was the oldest lady resident of Shanghai is not quite accurate, and he mentions that one lady still in our midst arrived here about 1862 and another a few years later but also in the sixties. And when we consider the number of old residents generally and all those we have known in the past decade. we begin to realize that Shanghai cannot be the unhealthy place which life insurance companies used to imagine. The same
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