The Archive · 1936

Epidemic Sweeps Hongkong

Hongkong, Nov. 16.

'Two more British children felt iellme to-day to the serious epidemic of infantile dysentery, which sweeping the Colony. 'They were 'Malcolm, son of Lieut.-Cmdr. Robert William' Stirling-Hamilton, "of the Royal Navy, and grandson of Sir William Stirling-Hamilton, and David, son of Lieut. R. J. Jenks, also of the Navy, Both were' buried at sea from'an Admiralty tender with simple rites, Seven British children have now ied of dysentery In the Colony in loss than a week-—Reuter,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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