Record Attendance in the New Term Many would-be students had to be turned away from the doors of Shanghai College, which is full to overflowing with an attendance of 387 students, just double the number of three years ago. Dorritories, dining halls, and classrooms are all overcrowded. The large and new middle school building is being rushed to completion in order to care for the large numa bers.
The boring for the artesian well is finished and a 3-inch pipe is down 300 feet, with its bottom resting in a bed*oi coarse gravel, whence the new steam pump ordered from America will bring up clear and cold water, No new cases of cholera have developed since last Wednesday week. Besides Mr. Chen Vu-ping, whose sad death has been reported, only foreigners have been attacked.
iv. Dr. James B, Webster, Miss Elizabeth Kethley, and Mys. C, H. Westbrook. The last. named had arrived from America just a week ago. The two Webster chil even and Mrs, Chambers were also taken ill and were removed to the isolation hospital, but they were not suffering from cholera ye recovered. The condition Westbrook is very serious and indeed critical: the others are all progressing favourably.
(Later)
Mrs. Westbrook passed away late on Friday night at the isolation hospital,
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