The Archive · 1933

New Disease Breaks Out in Peking

Peking, Aug. 14, The disease, known as swimmers' lconjunetivities made its' appearance fin Peking with' the opening of the Munieipar 'Swimming' col Chungnan Hai Park. During last few days, doctors of the partment of ophathalmology of the PAU.MLC. Hospital hada busy time treating patienta suffering. from serious. eye trouble. More than fen eases have been treated, includ ix members of the staff of the Hospital" and all the patients ad-suitted. they had swam'in the new has, been. doing exceedingly good M Municipal. Pool work in connection with the Police, According to an expert of the round collecting local taxes, He He had also been employed in going Jcpartiments the disease first made the @teee'Wae_and wan, onused by its appearance in' Europe duri nounced that, he wished to cease this Intter activity, because he con-swimming in' unclean' water. sidered it unfair to make the poor Similar io trachoma and. Fequires pay taxes, when the rich refused to raingul treatments. which may to. s0, The Governor required him to furnish a list of the rich who had extend over a period of two or thee declined to. pay taxes, The Commis.

One of the most unfortunate cases sioner, having supplied the list, Dr. Yun Tuctong of the X-Ray tendered his resignation, alleging that he preferred. to resign than Department, of the. P.UM.C. who

tial, people, incur the animosity of these infvenepiinaly planned ta anil for the United States about the end of this month for advanced research work There his been also the resigna-[departure is me hut" has "now had to. postpone tion of the friend of a certain general_who considered that, his friend factious—Reut should "have been appointed to a high wulitary post, which has been fence." This indent has also is) to fr-law a man with far less experiren by Geb, Ho Chien to his eon: Thirty-four illegal levies,, de~ the threatened resignation of the scribed as, "miscellaneous taxes"

ner of Internal Affairs, So forced in Kuangtung province, have Teads to another. been abolished by order of the The Y.W.C.A. Conference is at an Provincial Finance Bureau, end at Nanyo. The results have not transpired as yet; we learn that there were twelve lenders to it and were arrested by. Peking pol Two of the nineteen stents who thirty student week for attempting to hold meet= The river has been dropping both.

Ing of the preparatory. committee to steadily and rapidly and is now support the Anti-War Conference in down to lift. 2 in, in, spite of rain-Shanghai, have been released on ball storms. I see the "Francis, Garnier," big as she is, is venturing to remain in the port." The "Bee" with Admiral Hill and staff on board left the early hours of Tuesday morn. ing, courteous to the end, in making tung, for the creation of no hooting to arouse ug from our district In the Nanhung area lumbers, The "Cockchafer" is sill been approved by General with us.

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