The Archive · 1939

Twenty Cholera Cases In Chungking

All Schools Evacuated To Countryside

Chungking, May 25.

Following the discovery of over 20 cholera cases in refugee camps, the Chinese authorities here are intensitying forts to check an epidemic. Squads are going from house to house, giving free inoculations, Vaccines for the inoculation of 200,000 people have arrived here for this purpose.

All schools have been ordered by the Ministry of Education to evacuate to the countryside, where an appropriate site for "an educational centre" will be chosen.

The New Life Movement Association is organizing "a war-time shopping centre for Chungking" to meet the presentedifficulties in making purchases of daily necessities"—Reuter, cee but have you tried

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