Cholera caused the death of one Chinese passenger in the British. owned Butterfield & Swire s. Shuntien in Chefoo on June 13, a Japanese Embassy spokesman announced yesterday evening. The vessel, the spokesman declared, was quarantined.
With Chefoo under Japanese naval occupation, the spokesman said that he "believed" that the quarantine services were being operated by the Japanese naval authorities.
The s. Shuntien sailed from Shanghai for North China ports on June 11.
"While Jspanese lines require the presentauon of an anti-cholera inoculation certificate before, pas-Osage to north China or Dairen will be sold, this practice is not being followed by other steamship lines,"
the spokesman commented, Twenty-two cases of cholera, the spokesman added, had been reported in Soochow up to Monday, Eight of the patients. all Chinese, had died. "The Japanese Consulate-General in Shanghai, the spokesman went on, had stopped the issue of bills of health to vessels proceeding to Japan. This was because Shanghai and Woosung had been officially designated as cholera-infected harbours.
These documents, certifying that the vessel was not carrying a communi cable disease and had not entered an infected port, facilitated quarantine formalities upon arrival in Japan, the spokesman explained,
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