The whole of the responsibility of dealing. with the present cholera epidemic, considered to be one of the worse in the history of Shanghai, has been thrown on the shoulders of Dr. Johnston. who has personally organized the cholera hospitals. and superintended the treatment of patients, in addition to administering the other municipal hospitals. He has been ably assisted by the two kindly matrons in charge of the cholera hospitals, and their staff of foreign and Chinese assistants.
It is a great credit to the hard-worked staffs of the cholera hospitals that the present epidemic has shown a normal death rate for a cholera epidemic, that is, about 30 per cent Working under the stress and strain of the most abnormal conditions, the hospital staffs have taken in the enormous number of 3,000 cholera patients since the epidemic began. Last "month, it was necessary to crowd five or six beds around each saline injector. Now. there is one to every two patients.
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