Epidemic with High Death Rate Result of Heavy Heat Tokyo, Aug. 28.
An epidemic of sleeping sickness, with a high death-rate, is spreading in the southwestern prefectures, apparently 8 & result of the severe heat experienced this summer, In Osaka there has also been an outbreak of cholera, The number of eases of sloping [sickness already exceeds 200, of which about 80 have proved fatal, There are about 20 new cases and ten deaths daily, The worst outbreaks are in Okayama, where 47 sufferers have died out of 113, and at Kagawa, in the prefecture of Shikoku, where 26, out of 79 cases, have succumbed.
In Osaka there have been 16 cases of sleeping sickness, of which me have proved fatal.
Recently there have been four more eases of chol which have been i me attacks, This brings the total this season to 16, despite the fact that the city authorities have been taking the strictest precautionary measures, Aug. 29, The epidemic continues to spread. The total number of eases to date: is now 349, of which 136 have proved fatal, At Takamatsu, in Kagawa Pre fecture, there have been 151 of which 67 ave proved Yesterday: there wore 28 2 cases "and ten deaths from the
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