Although the cholera epidemic shows certain signs of assuming greater and more serious proportions, it does not, as yet, affect the French Concession in any alarming way, officials of the French Public Health Department informed the "North-China Daily News" yesterday.
If the cholera epidemic is kept under control—as seems likely—it will be solely as a result of the ex: tensive inoculation work carried ouf from the beginning of April, they assert The number of new cases, which did not exceed 25 a day last week, increased to 40 cases a day for the week ending July 23. The number of deaths has increased proportionally, but the death rate itself remains under 10 per cent.
Investigations by the health authorities show that the patients now suffering from cholera had not. been inoculated previously, while persons living in the same districts, but who had been inoculated, have not contracted cholera, The efforts taken by the Concession health department to reach local residents who have refused inoculations is being pursued with satisfactory results, it is understood.
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