Finances Shanghai, Sept. 4 Mr. Chen Ping-nien, the Che-Kiang Provincial Finance Commi sioner, arrived here from Hangchow or Sept. 12 to submit a report to the "Reformed Government" on the financial condition of Chekiang and ask for instructions, Chinese sources close to the new regime revealed. Mr. Chen will return to Chekiang after about a week's stay here, Wusih Lifts Ban on Rice Shipments Shanghai, Sept. 16.
After being in effect for nearly' a year a ban imposed by the Wusth authorities on rice shipments from that district to other places has been lifed, according to Chinese reports [reaching here yesterday, After the ban was lifted orders were placed immediately for Wusih rice by merchants in Shanghai and other places, Already 3,000 piculs of the cereal have been shipped here from Wusih, the reports stated, Tue Shanghai Municipal Council health report for the week ending vnidnight,. September 17, shows that he total number of deaths from all auses amongst the foreign and Chinese population in the Settlement were—Forelgners 8 and Chinese 1007, Deaths from notifiable diseases were Foreigners, 'Typhoid Fever 1 and Dysentery i, Chinese, Cholera 4: Dysentery 39; 'Typhoid Fever Tuberculosis 18; Beri-beri-16; Chol rale Diarrhoea 5; Diphtheria 2: Measles 2, and Smallpox, Scarlet Sever, Cerebrospinal Fever, Paratyobold' Fever, Malaria 1 each, Of 128 cases notified, it is considered that about 68 percent are genuine cholera,
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