Responsibility for the major amount of work necessary on Settlement roads may be laid at the door of one of Shanghai's oldest institutions, the handcart. These vehicles, often equipped with iron bound wheels and pulled by a number of straining coolies may be seen at any time on the roads in Shanghai, and the damage they cause is specially great during the summer months. Once one of these heavily loaded carts is allowed to come to a rest it begins to sink into the heat-softened asphalt of the roadbed, and it is often necessary for the coolies to move the cart back and forth several times before enough momentum is reached to start the vehicle moving. Every time the cart is moved, the furrow left in the roadway becomes a little deeper and as succeeding handcarts come to rest on the same spot the furrow cut into the pavement soon reaches such a depth that extensive repairs are necessary before the fault can be eliminated.
A second: cause of difficulty in road maintenance iş the use of heavy trucks which were constructed to serve 181 Cases Being Treated In Hospital One Jewish refugee has died of scarlet fever, whilst 181 other cases are now being attended to, according to a statement released by the Public Health Department of the Shanghai Municipal Council yesterday.- An emergency isolation hospital has been prepared at the Chaofung Road Jewish refugee camp and the P.H.D. is cooperating with German-Jewish doctors and volunteer nurses drawn from the ranks of refugees in an effort to curb the spread of the terrible disease:
Meanwhile, health officials expressed their admiration for the work done at the emergency hospital and medical circles were of th opinion that the epidemic might be caped with satisfactorily within a short time.
The patient who died from the disease, is Mr. Fritz Bettelheim, who arrived in Shanghai on Apri] 3. Me was 25 years old and had been guffering fro a weak heart. residential districts only and which, for that reason, were surfaced with a depth of asphalt only sufficient for light traffic. At present a great part of Shanghai's foodstuffs which formerly reached the city by boat are transported into the city over roads in the Western area. As a result, extensive repairs have become necessary and: in many cases the thin asphalt surfacing has had to be stripped completely away and replaced with concrete.
Water and gas mains, if laid at the regulation depth of three feet give little trouble during road repair work, and it is only when roads are to be widened that any difficulty arises.from this source. The problem of water flooded streets during the wet season has been largely eliminated through the use of ball. valves which have been placed in all gully drains which are liable to give any trouble. It would appear. that the main difficulties in keeping Shanghai's roads in good repair remain the old dgshioned handcart and the "new-
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