It was, however, during the second halt of the year that the activities of the Hospitals' Division were greatest The outbreak of Sino-Japanese hostilities on August 13. necessitated evacuation of all Municipal Hospitals and Clinics and organization of temporary hospitals in the Central and Western Districts. The opening of these temporary hospitals was rendered an extremely urgent matter by the outbreak of. cholera which rapidly assumed. epidemic proportions, as also did dysentery and typhoid fever. This was attributable to the large influx of refugees from the areas of hostilities.
The Tuberculosis Sanatorium was evacuated.without difficult on the evening of August 12. The Chinese Isolation Hospital, Municipal Isolation Hospital, Nurses Quarters, Mental Hospital and Central Laundry were transferred to other accommodation on August 13. On August 14 arrangements were made to evacuate the Municipal Police Hospital, Ward Road, but the first convoy was forced to return owing to aerial activity. On August 15, however, the hospital was evacuated' with great difficulty, two vans in the convoy were, damaged by shell fire and one driver wounded by shrapnel. The hospital was transferred to the Chase Bank Building but these premises proved unsuitable and it was moved to the vacated LI. "British Military Hospital at 24 Central Road on the following morning. The peregrinations of this hospital did not end at this stage, and it was again obliged to move to the Ka-dearie School "n October 14 as the British Military were forced to extend their hospital accommodation.
The Mental Hospital, which had been transferred to the Foreign Gaol, Ward Road, as a measure of safety, had again to be evacuated owing to bombing and shelling in that area. This was performed on August 18, cases and staff being sent to the Police Hospital where special wards were prepared. Finally, on September 14 the cases were sent to the Mental Block of the Russian Orthodox Confraternity Hospital where they continue to receive treatment.
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