Disease Held Well in Check and Sports Resumed: Losses in Factories Tokio, Oct. 22.
The health of Tokio is improving, and the spread of disease is being effectively checked, according to the latest return published by the Metropolitan Police authorities. These returns give the number of fresh cases of dysentery and typhoid recorded between October 1 and 18 as 1,774, of which 347 have proved fatal. Whereas in September the number of cases reported day by day was 99, this month the daily average has fallen to 54. Since September 1, the total number of cases reported has been 3,686 and of these 624 have ended fatally. Most cases are to be found among those who are condemned to live in barracks.
4 Oct. 23.
-For some time past the suggestion has been put forward that every encouragement should be given to-the revival of games and sports, which were temporarily abandoned as the result' of the confusion created by the disaster. As a sign of the attempt to return to a normal life, the various colleges in Tokio announce a series of baseball matches for the early part of next month. Also on November 10 and 11 the first series of eliminating contests for prospective representatives at the Paris Olympic games will be held at the Osaka Stadium. A: day or two ago it was stated that Osaka athletes were proposing annual athletic contests with China, and would further attempt to widen the scope of the Far Olympiad by the inclusion of Siam, the Malay States, India and Far Eastern Russia.
On the 25th instant martial law will be lifted in the adjoining provinces of Saitama and Chiba, but will be maintained in the districts of Tokio and Kanagawa, including the cities of
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