Shanghai, July 15.
Fire broke out in House 30, Lane '57, Sinza Road, at 7.46 p.m. yesterda; completely gutted the house and damaged twe adjacent dwellings slightly. The premises where the fre started were Used as a factory for making celluloid frames and. the highly" inflammable nature of the material stored in the place caused the flames to spread rapidly. Three machines from Sinza fire station answered the call and managed to get the blaze under control in twenty minutes. No one was injured in the conflagration, Concession Health Report Shanghai, July 13.
Although the increase' in. sickness Increased 8.14 per cent. in the French Concession in Sune it was still lower than the rate for the same month of last year, according to the monthly report of the French Cohimissioner of Public Health, who states that the increase is seasonal and was to be expected, The death rate f6r June was low! with an increase of only 3.02 per cent. indicating a rather sdtistictory state of public health. "Ever the mortality among paupers has decreased, the number of exposed corpses removed being 1447 instead of 1,585 for the preceding month, Diseases of the digestive tract have {increased in importance. Dysenterles also were prevalent, Typhoid. fever showed an alarming increase with a death rate amongst the Chinese three limes higher as compared with the rate of mortality from cholera for the same period last year. The affections of the typhoid group are less dramatic than cholera in their manifestations but they ought to inspire a fear equal to that of the cholera infection, protect "oneself, strict alimentary hygiene "rules should be applied. Everything raw, whatever its origin, should be treated as suspect. "They may only be consumed after a long immersion ina potassium. perma garate solution. We, strongly recommend anti-typha-paratyhold inocula-Hons to persons who can sustain the injections,
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