The Archive · 1938

To Inoculate Residents

The French Municipal Public Health Department are active conducting an anti-cholera campaign. Inspectors are making house to house calls and inoculating the native population at the rate of some 20,000 per day, using about 30,000 c.c. of vaccine daily.

As a result of these energetic precautionary measures the epidemic is Kept well under control, in spite of a slight increase of cholera cases which was registered these last few days.

Up to the present time there were 1,038 cases of cholera registered in the Concession, of which 117 were fatal. These figures apply to the native population; while foreign cases are numbered five in all, of which one was fatal Since June 25 there were no foreign cholera cases reported.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic 1,530,000 inoculations were made, while 1,890,000 c.c. of vaccine were used. for that purpose by the Concession's Public Health Department.

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