Cholera has broken out in the city to an "alarming extent. The first cases were limited to the North gate section of the city and practically all were boat people who not only used the canal water to wash the con-laminated clothing. of patients but also for the cleansing of their bowls, chopsticks and vegetables.
The cholera epidemic this year is of a severe form, spreading rapidly and killing many. For'a few days the local hospitals coped with the epidemic until it became too severe The mission hospital could not handle the many cases that came for help and the leper clinic buildings were thereupon opened as an emergency hospital until the local authorities could open a cholera clinic, which now takes care of the cases.
Supplies are loaned from the various hospitals and with considerable equipment left from the cholera clinic of five years ago, the city emergency cholera clinic this year has done excellent work in relieving the other hospitals. The supply of serum is exhausted and since communication with Shanghai is exceedingly uncertain at present. the cholera "mic will undoubtedly be handicap-ret by lack of supplies.
Recently a shipload of refugees from Shanghai was unloaded Lear Nantung and these are slowly finding their homes, being supplied by various charity organizations on their way.
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