The "Shunpao's" Shansi_ corres pondent writes that the plague in western Shansi is becoming more serious and says that it is extending daily.
People who have returned from the plague districts to Taiyuanfa say the pestilence broke out in the Fengyang district, district since the 7th year of the Republic (1918) has been visited=by plagues the worst being in 1924, Though steps had been taken to prevent the outbreak, wild rats have been discovered and the plague has the worst in the history of, the pla.
Hospitals wore at once establish= ed and all measures were taken, but the outbreak has continued to ays the letter, it is More than 1,000 deaths already have taken place and a similar number of patients are said to he under treatment,
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