Serious Plight of Harbin Since Floods The number of cholera cases. re-
August 20 is 347 as compared wit corded "daring! the. week ending {the'343 for the previous, Week, according to the report of Dr." Wa Lien-tth, Chairman of the Central Cholera Bureau, Severe floods involving much damage. to. property and" sickness mong the population, have pyrred from' the "Harbin ar Tiree hundred "and two eases cholera with 80 deaths hi Up to August 16 the ety.
2 inhabitants ate rowing corpses of cholera victims into the streets at' night-time. as well as int Ehastly aight." "This serves. as a ommentary on the publics lack confidence: in Tocal preventive me sures.
Thirty-two cities in the not the Eastern Provinces (Mancha) ass reported to be badly affected with Siler, the total umber of cas Sieo1, This figure inches to "August ena {no the' Rigures for Loyang repart= ed in Bulletin No, 12, para 3. The figures. should read 500 casco, 100, atti satoad of 0,000 and 10,000 Phere are now 20. hospitals the "Shanghai" district which are available for cholera cass, The Central Hygienic Laboratory of Greater "Shanghai has "mang. actured and distributed up to-date over 45,000. bottles of -anti-sholera Waccine™ (totaling "approximately two million doses): to various parts of China, even as far as Tung-ewen, Shensi, where supplies were sent by aeroplane, information received, members of the Woosung Public Safety Bureau unearthed a coffin at the Taziang Village which, when opened, was found to con: tain a rifle, three pistols, and" 63 rounds of' ammunition.' Eleven Chinese concerned in the affair were taken into custody,
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