Cases Increase Despite Health Department Efforts Cholera Attained Epidemic Figures Arrested For Robbery of Tobacco Shop "ALARIA showed a well marked increase in Shanghai last month, according to the report of the Commissioner of Public Health, who states in his monthly report that 155 cases were notified during September as against 86 for the same month last year. This occurred in spite of the concentration of the efforts of the malarial squads on anopheline breeding grounds, The Commissioner observes: "It is probable that the lack of cultivation and the increase of waste land have encouraged mosquito breeding in areas surrounding the treated area, factors which can only be eliminated in the course of time through the progress of roads and the levelling of land which accompanies town development."
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