Meanwhile many in the city and some of the enlightened ju the eountry districts are coming to St. Luke's Hospital to be Innoculated "against plague. The serum Is provided by the Municipal Government, and inoculation Is done free of char Already 7,801 Innoculations have Seen liven; the most in any one day was 1,000, when schoo} children were Brought in, Posters were put up everywhere to teach the people the nourse of the disease, and what precautions should be taken against it.
Of these one shows a rat, and underneath are the words, "Where there are no rats, there 4s no plague." Another shows a dead rat, and! fleas the size of sparrows leaving its body, hopping on to a living rat, and then on to % woman, who is showing to the World the fatal tumour on her ey. Some of the hospital nurses wore oltt to inspect conditions in the plague-stricken districts, to teach the people what precautions they should {ake andi {o Innoculate those who are willing. But their fatalist outlook. and iunoranee makes teaching difficult.
Superstitious practices are not confined to the phigue epidemic. Three bud fires occurred recently in Han-jan, a small market town near "The main street is crowded with shops and if fire breaks out in one, others inevitably suffer. The Gamage done by fire this year Is estlmated ut thousands of dollars, the superstitious people in Hanchiang say that the fire god must be displeased with his present location. He ust be taken out and worshipped. Tha few days! time he is to be carried about In procession, and sacri-ices are (o be offered. This done, it hoped that he will appeased and will not send any more fires for some time to com
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