ince the writer's Inst nows of port and district was mailed—September 16—he has been absent {from the district for some time and though banditry is not terminated, he was pleased to find that there was and still is a very considerable diminution of it, and in some parts, where it ied on it is said himself to the study of the language, written and spoken, and:
charmed with the beauty: of the surroundings, with the homeliness of the many Chinese who have already: greeted him, and with the merry: character of the bright faced Wenchow boys and girls, Nurse Petro. Smith of the Methodist Hospitat has gone to Shanghai fore thoroughly well-earned change after two strenuous xummors in the ying conditions of her profession hero.
evidenced by the excerpts from the report of Dr. W. A, N. Morrow.
"The months of September and November (1929) inclusive gle households. Executions still taking place, but the scene shifted to a hill inside the South west corner of the city at the Three Horn Gate. An Englih woman just recently arrived in this city, married to a Chinese belonging to this part of the country whom she met and married ten yenrs ago in London, hho being a vendor of soapstone and other Chinese curiosethere, has had horrifying introduction to life in country. The rooms they took are in the part of the city where the exeeuffons of bandits and communists now take place, and being very near, these rooms look right fon the scone of these tragedies. to a few woke ago these had been in full view no fewer than 27 executions. The explanation of the transfer of the scene of the exceutions, given to your correspondent, was that there was a much used well at the foot of the hill on whose lo about 40 yards above and away ion of a laxye number of cases of cholera to the ogptal "four times that, of the highest attained in any other year, it is worthy of note that although there are hospitals in the city van by Chinese, these showed Jess than a hundred cases among them. This is to be ascribed to. the excellent results obtained at the hospital driving the epidemics of 1926." (Dr. B. TA. Stedeford was then in charge) 971 cholera eases were admitted, a revery rate of approximately 80 per was obtained, figure being arrived at by addition of 9 ree cent. to the death vote recurring, at the hospital... not a single case of cholera occurred amongst the hospital staff."
arse Smith had og colleague arse Raine, married" and now living in Yokohama... Bit, during the rdysentry epidemic of this year she has had no trained nurse with from the well the captives were shot, and the people using the well jeomplained that the well was being tainted by the blood of the victims percolating through.the soil. People however are still using the well.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.