Over 3,000,000 People to Benefit; 1,000 Litres Sent Through U.S. Consul in Hongkong Over 2,000,000 Chinese in South and Central China will directly benefit by the gift of 1,000 litres of anti-cholera vaccine which is being placed at the disposal of the Chinese Government through the United States Consul-General in Hongkong, a cable message from the Colony reveals, The cable does not state what the actual source in America of this splendid gift is, but points out that the equivalent value of the vaccine, which represents about 220 gallons, will permit the inoculation of about three million people and should do much to help check the ravages of cholera, which this year has found its work considerably assisted by the prevailing hostilities.
But far greater quantities of the anti-cholera vaccine will be needed to check the disease, especially in the more crowded refugee centres and it is understood that centres both in Europe and America are making arrangements to help meet the need the population of the Pootung area it would have been an excellent preventive treatment, it is pointed out, The authorities state quite definitely that the preventive inoculations are efficacious, "though not in an absolute manner." The percentage of those inoculated among the cholera patients treated in hospital works out at less than 10 per cent. The Concession health authorities conclude with the following remarks "In spite of the great heat the epidemic has not increased accordingly. If we take into consideration the that cholera made its appearance on May and that it has great possibilities of spreading. one should understand that preventive measures were not taken in, vain and that the number of inoculations carried out have contributed greatly to an abatement of the epidemic."
Members of the Cambridge crew boston by Oxford seem better scholars than they are oarsmen. On Tuesday, June 14, D. S. M. Eadie,.the stroke, gained honours in fechanicai Sciences and on Wednesday, J. L. L.
Savill, the No. 5, gained honours i the Archaeological and Anthrop gical Tripes, as did J. D. Gote! Hockey Blue.
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