According to the latest bulletin' issued by Dr. Wu Lien-teh, director of the Central Cholera Bureau of the National Health ration, the three local municipal ities continue to report the absence of cholera cases within their areas. Mass vaccination is still being carried on on a wide scale, emphasis being laid factories and the poorer and less hygienic districts where water, pollution and fly infection are more. feared than other places, The situation at Chou-py, a district 10 miles from Chowkatu (on the Pootung side of the river, which is accessible by light railway, jis still bad. Since the beginning of the limited outbreak three weeks ago, 18 cases have been definitely ascertained, of which five have proved fatal, the cured patients responding quickly to saline infusion treatment It is of interest, to note that all the sick were non-vaccinated persons. These cases have been confined to a small area of about a mile square, So far as can be determined, the patients have been infected, not through water supply, but through conveyance of cholera vibrios by flies. Preventive measures have, therefore, been taken in this connection. Up to date, ai cholera vaccinations have been performed "on 6,700 individuals, Vaccination squads travel by railway eight times a day so that no one coming to Shanghai from the infected district may escape immunication, On the whole, the local epidemic has been successfully controlled, for none of the stations on Tragedy at Quarters in Sinza Road A few minutes after parting from! 'a number of his friends, Pte. H. 'Bozell, of the 25th Company, United 'States Marine Corps, was' found shot in his quarters at Sinza Road shortly before 7 pin. on August 10. The friends say that he was in high spirits while with them and at no time spoke of taking his life, Death was caused by a. bullet from a Springfield service rifle hich entered under the chin and passed through the brain.
An inquest was _immedistely opened at the Marine Headquarters, 50 Haiphong Road, but no verdict has as yet been announced.
Pte, Bozell was 25 years old and arrived in Shanghai about 18 months ago to serve his second Tistment with the Corps. survived by hid mother who lives: in Edinburgh, Cleveland Ohio.
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