The diphtheria epidemic, which has been raging for about four months, is still going strong and carrying off hundreds of children every week. A police report states that at least 700 children are being carried off monthly by this dread disease. Old and young are subject to it, and while the mortality among the latter is less than the proportion of mortality among the children, yet deaths are very numerous among the grown-up portion of the population. The writer knows of one family, in which two aged people have succumbed, while large numbers of adults, ranging in age from 15 to 21 have lost their lives.
The police are doing their best to cope with the danger, but amid so much ignorance and superstition it is almost impossible to induce the people to adopt precautionary measures. The police themselves wash the streets with the hose pipes, which at least lays the dust, if it does not result in any abetment of the disease.
The Cantonese Guild have established a free dispensary where people can have their throats scraped and medicine given them absolutely at the execution ground,-he inform-free of charge. This place, need-
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