On arrival, patients are taken and washed in disinfectant—in the homely Soochow bath-tubs. Then the are taken into improvised observation wards, cubicles which have been speedily hammered together in one of the school classrooms.
Certified as suffering from cholera, they are then taken to the main ward, where they either die in a which have left their bodies as a result of the disease.
Three or four hours after it has been administered, they recover conscioustiess. Their symptoms soon cease, and they are then removed to one of the convalescent wards, If the patient recovers, he is out of the hospital in about ten days. He may, however. suffer a relapse in which cases, he is taken back to the main ward, and again treated with the saline solution.
After recovering consciousness, patients are fed on congee water, en congee, and nally a soft diet. By the time they leave hospital, they are able to walk.
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