End on October 1
For about one week now, the number of new cases of cholera reported in the French Concession has been less than ten a day, reports the French Public Health Department. Of this number, only about 40 per cent. are found to be real cholera cases, and the rate of mortality has been around 10 per cent.
Reviewing the past four and a halt months epidemic in the Concession, an epidemic which only recently showed signs of coming to an end, the department states that ere was a total of 3,007 Chinese and fourteen foreign cases in the Concession; deaths from cholera were 353 Chinese and six foreign, mortality percentages being 11.7 per cent. and 428 per cent. respectively.
For a much shorter period in 1937, there were 1,744 Chinese cases (330 deaths) and 43 foreign cases (seventeen deaths), corresponding mortality percentages being 18.9 and 39.5 respectively. y The anti-cholera campaign in the Concession came to an end officially on October 1. Consumption of anti-cholera vaccine totalled: 2,371,500 cubic centimetres, while the total number of injections was. 2,235,000.
Injections were carried out as follows:—Schools. 145,00 Refugee caupo Classified establishments 89,500 Divers administrations 72,000 Residents at their homes 548,700 Municipal dispensaries 7. 102,600 Vaccinations in the street 1,076,900 Zikawei/Hungjao area 102,600
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