Ten Deaths Last Week Including One Foreigner The port authorities have been officially notified that cholera in Shanghai has reached the state of an epidemic, which is defined in the sanitary regulations for this port the daily average of three new, eases for one week. The state of epidemicity was declared as from August 7 and other ports in the
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Far East have been notified accord The. total number of notifications received by the S.M. Health Depart ment for the week ending August 10 was 177, nine of which were foreign cases. it is true case, after investigation, The first true case of cholera was reported here on July 17, which time there have been noti tions from the whole of the Shanghai ea concerning ten foreigners and 528 Chinese, which have resulted, far as can be ascertained, in 38 deaths. With cholera being declared in the state of an epidemic, Shanghai becomes an infected port, and medical precautions will be taken at all other Par Eastern ports against, ips arriving from this city.
The following figures show the state of the epidemic in the International Settlement during the week notifications reedived officially:—
Foreign Chinese August 5 2 2
0 7
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