The Acting Commissioner of Public Health reports With the lowering of the average temperature, Cholera decreased con siderably during the latler part of the month, although remaining in epidemic form, and cases and deaths recorded were approximately half the September Agures. Towards the end of the month, Measles was found to bee inereasing—mostly amongst the re~ fugee population, where the mortality, in. the ease of small children was as high as 60 per cent.
Diphtheria also. showed a marked increase which, however, is usual at this time of the year.
The Police Hospital was again obliged to move from its temporary quarlers in Central Road, and now couples the Ellis Kadoorie School in. Shanhaikwan "Road, where _conditions are on the whole satisfactory.
'As hostilities moved round to the Western area the Foreign Isolation Hospital at Brenan Road, was evacuated as a precautionary measure, but this building will be reoccupied 45 soon as conditions permit, and it {is hoped that thereafter no' further changes of this nature will be neces say.
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