According to an official report, the dead in Kanagawa Prefecture, excepting Yokohama, amounted to 28,465, andi the houses destroyed or burnt down 146,305. It is expected that the dead in Yokohama, too, number several thousands.
The Imperial Household Department, at the instance of Her Majesty the Empress, has established a relief section, which is now engaged in relief for the sick and wounded at large. Each Prince of the Blood has donated Y. 500,000 to the relief funds.
THE PLIGHT OF THE HOMELESS, Tokio, Sept. 16.
Those refugees who have not yet been taken into barracks are still leading a pitiful life in parks and other open spaces, where they have built for themselves small, poor sheds, structures of pieces of planks, old sheet-zinc, matting, ete. But the heavy rain that has fallen since lust night has poured into these sheds through crevices, thereby soaking the bedding and clothing, which the refugees have, with much difficulty and at great risk, taken out of their homes. The contingents of medical men and disinfection parties belonging to the Sanitary Board of the Metropolitan Police Office are very active in their efforts for preventing infections diseases from breaking out among tHe sufferers.—Fastern News Agency.
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