A comfortable private house standing in delightful grounds in Brenan Road has now been transformed into an isolation hospital. Originally intended to accommodate foreigners, the hospital is actually being used to take one or two foreign cases, and an overflow of Chinese suffering from scarlet fever, diphtheria, meningitis and other diseases. The two cholera hospitals are also dealing with cases of typhoid and dysentery, which makes it particular-necessary, of course, to take stringent precautions against e danger of cross-infection.
"The present cholera epidemic was probably started in the Settlement by Chinese troops who came up from the South," said Dr. Johnston.
"There was already a cholera epidemic in the south, whereas the districts from which the refugees flocked into the Settlement were free from cholera. It has occurred principally among the poorest class, who are completely ignorant of hygiene.
Better than any inoculations is the exercise of especial care with regard to food. If due precautions are taken. there is no reason why anyone should catch cholera. That it i entirely a question of hygiene is shown by the fact that only 20 or so foreigners have been stricken with cholera, out of a total of 3,000 cases which we have dealt with since the epidemic began." few hours or make a speedy recovery. Cholera is a matter of life or death, and the er takes place only a short time after the patient is admitted to hospital.
Patients are brought in unconscious. On admission to the main ward, they are "fed" with a strong saline solution administered from a container, through a tube and needle, straight into a vein in the arm. This solution replaces the fluids
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