Wahu, Oct, 12, We have been favoured with! wonderfully fine and sunshiny wea ther for many weeks, though would be well for the country if we! Jhad some rain. "Inland there is a good deal of sickness. Your corres: pondent was in Chaohsien last week, 0 miles across the river from Wuhu, and he saw a good many cases which hogs been diagnosed as a virulent type of malaria, "Many hundreds suecumbed to this disease which is prevalent
cases in the city are reported.
wie country round Chachsien, for Patients who come into the Chao-vision hospital tell of instances where whole families have been wiped out! and every morning stretcher cases fare seen along the city streets. At} the request of the local magistrate the National Health Adminstration sent! three doctors and three technicians there this summer and these men, og well as making an. investigation of conditions, gave for distribution several thousand dollars worth quinine pills. Up to the present there seems to be very little abatement of the disease, but fortunately it is local-zed.
The Double Tenth was celebrated hhere-not by any special demonstra-ions, but rather bya general feeling gratitude and happiness, while the iimesphere was optimistic, The schools and other public places were closed for the day. All the schools: sent delegates to Nanking to join in the Scout Jamboree for which event, the entire student body and teachers of the Wuhu Academy made the trip a specially chartered launch,
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