When the Peking-Shanghai through express arrived at the Shanghai North Railwya Station last Wednesday, 19 youths were removed from the train and taken into the custody of the Shanghai Public Safety When questioned, officials the Public Safety Bureau stated the arrests had been made by them according to instructions from Nanking authorities who declared the arrested men were suspected of Communist propaganda, Twenty-four Communists were sent to Nanking by train under guard on Sunday. doctors and thirty Chinese nurses at the Hospital for Infectious Diseases, it is an unmistakable indication of work to be done-—hard, gruelling, fearless work, with human lives the stake—with sun and heat and insidiously dangerous diseases the enemies.
The capacity of the Hosplial is nor~ mally. 100, and there were 80 patients receiving treatment on Thursday at noon-time, with more arriving every moment.
When cholera rages, the entire hospital is cleared for victims of the dread plague, and when wards over~ flow, the vielims are ranged In rows in the great hall. Huge tanks of sterile saline solution are made ready to Inject into victims at the rate from 2,000 to 10,000 cubic centimeters, {in proper dosage. The wasted bodies of, those who have been stricken respond amazingly. Thirty-five at a lime receive the life-giving synthetic body tuid, under the watchful eyes jand steady hands of the staff. Saline saves 90 per cent. of those 50 [desperately ill that their families have red even the perils of modern science and hospitalization in hope Jof a cure. Despite the most recent belge of Old Sol, not a single case fof cholera has made its appearance.
Tremendous Temperatures A frightful 24 hours was put in by the staff on the first day" of the "great heat wave". Eight patients died, and Dr. C. S. Teng, in charge of the Hospital, searched frantically for ice and more ice to combat the amazing temperatures that had to be reduced, somehow, anyhow, to save life, "He had no exact record readily at hand to give the terrific tempers tures registered by patients that first day, but he has. statistics on those since, Twenty-nine victims in all, from the second day onwards, were admitted with temperatures all above 103 degrees "by axilla". That means that, actually, the body tem-Peratures, could they have been taken [by mouth. would have registered at least one degree higher.
'On Thursday, at 1145 a.m., just before the clouds rolied up' to drop the atmospheric temperature about four degrees, a coolie was brought} in whose temperature broke all records available for the year—possibly for years past 'A representative of the "North-China "Herald" had sat for fifteen minutes, watching the parade of summer diseases and the quick efficiency of Dr. W. Chien Hsu who was on duty at the time, when strange noises sounded outside the Admittance Room. Five patients already confronted the unhurried doctor, who was business-like, yet Kindly in' his dealing with each—who had already Sisposed of six previous problems. Two coolies, streaming perspiration {from every visible pore. maneouvered long wicker chair into the doctor's Presence.
Thermometer Readings He cast an appraising eye at the husky man lying unconscious in it. Terse orders in Chinese crackled in the breathless heat. The nurse, [busily charting the case history of fan amah, moved swiftly to the side of the prone coolie, whose breathing alone filled a room suddenly dense with silence, 'A thermometer slipped cally In the presence of one obviously sicker than they. Every eye seemed glued on the nurse, who flanced at her watch and read the thermometer, stared at it an instant verity the temperature, and waited for Dr. Hsu to give her his full attention. He raised his eyes the instant he had completed the arneb's prescription, querying the nurse with slightly raised brows.
"One Hundred eight degrees, and four tenths," she announced quietly. The patient continued to labour for breath.
The doctor smited wearily, "It is the record high temperature for sunstroke for the year," he observed to the reporter, "One hundred eight degrees. was the highest—this means that that man has. the phenomenal temperature of 109.4 and he is. still living." He felt his pulse, smiled with something like satisfaction, "It is weak, and very rapid, 146 oF 90, but strong enough so that he has a chance." Rapidly he scribbled orders on a fresh chart.
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