119 Proved Cases and Nine Deaths in Past Month One hundred and nineteen were proved cholera cases out of the over 200 cases handled by the Settlement hospitals from August 13 to September 11 and the mortality was less than ten per cent, there having been nine deaths among the proved cases up to September 10, statistics compiled by the S.M.C.'s Public Health Department disclosed yesterday.
Practically all the cases were among the Chinese refugees and, immediately after being discovered, they were isolated, the majority at the Chinese Isolation Hospital, and a few at the Chinese Summer Diseases Hospital in Vu Ya-ching Road. Of the proved cases, 33 were sent from the Concession, 20 from the Chinese-controlled territory, and 16 from unknown sources, Three Chinese huts, poles carrying the American standard, were in the path of the flames at 430 pin. In sandbag redoubts, standing before these huts, Chinese soldiers valiantly manned their machine guns, which bore directly against the Fourth Marine sector and also down the waterway to prevent a Japanese advance from Hongkew. During the afternoon, other than those on duty, no one could be seen, although it was stated that the houses were thick with defenders, Last evening, although the wind had died down, it was impossible to
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