Cruel methods of transportation and lack of water were apparently the cause of the Nanking Road Jetty being Itered with the cadavers ioo on April 20 upon the arrival of the s.
Christine Molter Like roa a so Open tmumy "dsadonts, Pontoon Nor from. lower Yangt ports. Besides 12 "was weighted down by scores of almost lifeless pigs which Health Department workers and. others attempted to revive by dousing them with water. The animals who seeped the bad effects of the Yang Journey fo Sangha, were quickly ducted from the Jelty to their market destinations.. The conditions under which the pigs reached Shanghai are being studied by officials of the Public Health Department and the SS.P.C.A, Pig Business Guerilla Units Shanghai, Apr. 21.
Conditions in the Shanghai pig trade wore illustrated yesterday by tone of the worst spectacles yet. witessed on The Bund, The laiest boat arrived from the Lower Yaingtze dis. trict with about 1,000 pigs on board, but how many managed to stagger ashore alive is not known.
Spectators who saw the proceedings must have felt nauseated for, obviously, the pigs in transit across country and thence by ship to Shanghai must ave been days without water and about sixty were stretched dead or dying on the pontoon, while several more were seen lying dead on the deck. This was visual evidence not actual count, but it is generally believed that "the total Geaths en route was much higher.
'So exhausted were many of the animals that they were dragged ashore and copiously immersed with water from the Whangpoo until they recovered and then were ushere¢ into the waiting motor trucks. Some collapsed while waiting for the nex' truck, but were revived as quickly og possible.
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