With contagious diseases in the Japanese community registering an increase compared to last year, the Social Affairs Section of the Japanese Residents' Corporation has launched an anti-epidemic campaign in cooperation with the Shanghai Municipal Council and the Special Municipality, Japanese newspapers said yesterday morning.
During the first eleven days of this month nine cases of typhoid fever, thirteen of paratyphoid fever and six of scarlet fever were reported.
In the first five months of the year there were four cases of brain fever, two of eruptive typhus, 16 of dysentery, 48 of typhoid fever, 12 of scarlet fever, 19 of diphtheria and 36 of smallpox. In the same period last year three cases of dysentery, 18 cases of typhoid fever and nine cases of scarlet fever were reported.
A clean-up drive is under way in Hongkew; rubbish and dirt is being removed by a crew of labourers supervised by Mr. Masamichi Urada, who has made an inspection tour of the entire district.
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