the Editor of the "Normi-Cuiwa Day News"
'Sur—May 1 through the medium your' paper express my admiration for the fine work being done by the Salvation Army in providing nourishment for thousands of the elly's destitute Chinese.
May 1 also call to the attention of the medical authorities the Very apparent threat to public health which sure to come at the beginning of this summer, in spite of the Salvation specimens of "Army's efforts to feed these decaying
It is not difficult to foresee or to imagine the possibility of widespread disease resulting from public exposure of these walking cases of phy-Steal corruption, nor is it hard to pre. @ict an increase in the city's cholera and smallpox death roll for 1940.
Tam neither a student of medicine nora public. health officer and therefore am not in a position to offer professional advice, but am able, however, to see the inevitable, and to recommend to the care of those whose duty it fs, the urgent task of cleaning up Aventie Edward VII and disposing of these human derelicts, before the heat of June 1040 heralds a new high Shanghai's death rate,"
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