The taipan section of Dairen which feels definitely ill housed except in bungalows at Hoshigaura has now had the dubious pleasure of the Yamato Hotel annex. there turned Into an isolation hospital. 'Typhoid, Jdysentery and cholera are common among residents and although numerous buildings have been turned into temporary hospitals patients rose 10 such an extent that' the Kwantung Government had to ask the Yamato Hotel to ald. This it did willingly and the annex is full to overflowing, atthe moment.
Wholesale vaccination and macula tion of all connected with work at the docks, such as coolies, officials and fishermen, are being carried out to halt the epidemic, which is be-Ueved to be reaching its close with the cooler weather which is now slowly seeping into Dairen,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.