About 40. person honicless of them, received when a row of seven Chinese coun. try-style houses elf Robison Roind collapsed ay a result of th Fain at 830 pam, on Mare!
Of the injured, only. three were conveyed to hospital, Twn them were women, Others were only slightly injured wid" received first ald treatment The evident veeurved when the rain, which fell incessantly" from abort Ham. up to press time, Its" heaviest. Many oe-is were having their meals and were in bed when the entire Erected on mud. the houses were flimsy, the materials used consisting, mostly of straw. mud and. woud. Hence many occupants escaped serie ous injuries. "The residents were of the coolie class, Two Settlement ambulances responded to the alarm. The locality the row of houses is in the exe Munieipat Couneit for the week end.
Murch 12, shows that the total feumber of deaths from. all. causes foreign and Chinese min the Concession were—Foreigners 7. and Chinese 420, Deaths from notifiable diseases were igners, Tuberculosis 2; Puet 1 and Encephalitis Epidemic Chinese, Cerebrospinal Meningitis 3; and Seartatina 1
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