Lancashire, to close down owing to the fact that they were situated" in the Northern District, and had been in the habit of purchasing "their materials, in Small quantities es required. The remaining bakeries have. been pros fiucing. double: the normal amount snd prices have remained atthe pre-emergency level Th regard to. sanitation, certain routine duties have been somewhat flslocated. in the northern districts fad to some extent also in other disfrletsy owing to. the, heavy. work created by the state of emergency The necessity for special inspection at various emergency hospitals and refugee camps threw a very heavy rain on this division, In addition, the smallpox scare and the ace Hon campaign occupied the Zot time of all available sta, Te has been necessary in some instances' to. perform house-to-house vaccinations tu the, nelghboutsoed smallpox cases, which, needless to say, takes up m good deal of time, fa" addition" tespsrasy' cleans quads have had to be organized and ipervised marder to. toaineain Sanitary conditions in varfouy ates These squads are supplementing the work of the PLW.D. by penetrating into private alleyways. occupied refugees, and where dangerous con. tions, might arise, from. Tack. anitaty "control, "ft algo became hecessaty during the early days of the state of emergency to organise Squads for the purpose of ensuring fie removal of ordure tron certain camps where, the contract. system Memporarily been dst The camps under the sanitary supervision of this Department nam for Grr and are' widely scattered, They present a source of anxiety the Department inasmuch as they fare frequently opened without notification, and not infrequently without the knowledge of the owner lof the property or house. It may fu fact be stated that in a number of cases refugees have taken possession of vacant properties and re-lain therein without any other con-[trol than our inspection.
Before concluding, a short note must be made concerning exposed corpse:
The removal of these was fan extremely difficult matter during {the earlier part of the month owing to the fact that some of the Chinese population found it impossible to leonvey bodies (coffined or uncoffined) to country districts in accordance Hwith the normal practice, and also to the influx of persons of no fixed. abode, It was found that most ]vacant areas in the Settlement contained dumped corpses—very often uuncoffined—some of which had died from communicable diseases, The Shanghai Public Benevolent Cemetery performed extremely valuable ]work and, assisted by this Depart-Femoved for burial outside limits 2,998. ce approximately five times the ordinary number.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.