Nine persons were sent to hospital early on June 13. believed" to be suffering from food poisoning. They were employees of the Wuchang Iron Factory, Point Road, and told the police that they had been attending a feast given in honour of the Dragon Festival. Shortly after mid= night, they started to" vomit, and had "to be "removed" to. hospital for treatment. 'The Shanghai -Municipal Police have taken specimens of the food consumed at the feast for examination, to determine whether it had been' poisoned, Dunne the week ending at midnight on June 5, there was only one foreign death in' the French Concession.- The number of Chinese who died was 202, Figures issued by the EME. Health Department reveal that there were two eases of paratyhoid fever, two cases of marsh fever fand one case of tuberculosis among foreigners, while the figures for the [Chinese community were two eases Jot diphtheria, one case of measles, Jone case of scarlet fever, four cases Jot paratyphoid fever (two deaths), Jone case of marsh fever, two cases fof pneumonia (one death) and three cases of tuberculosis (one death).
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