'The rapid sise in the cholera epic. Sept. 20. rig which was desired as. one HE Shanghai Municipal Coun: I has approved a flood prevention Foverato severity this year was Hresed. bythe' commitioner "of scheme submitted by Mr. A. F. Gimson, the Commissioner Public Health of the SMC, im his August report. Cholera was declares of Public Works, embodying details of a project which, it is Sn"epluemie inthe migaie of August understood, has been exhaustively worked out and experimented Shor a persistent Increase: in me upon and will effectively combat the floods which have been a Humber of eases reported Im the bane to city dwellers since the emergence of Shanghai from a "The Settlements health report also village on the mud banks of the Whangpoo to a port of world sndlested. that dysentery. produced a prominence.
The scheme involves the expenditure of $4,000,000, harp seacona1 ise. white there: wat 3 decsesss'In typhoid fever eaves for but the estimated sum required this year it was learned, will sgun against the previous month, not exceed $400,000 or ten per cent. of the total required by the it'Sras pointed cout that" there did Zot seem fo be any obvious relation Between' the incidence of summer At its last meeting: held on Wed-From time immemorial Shanghai Aiseases and' Ghe abnormal depres" of nesday' afternoon in' Council cham-has suffered from the invasion of flooding experienced this season, The 'Bors the Council, discussed the. pro-'Moods owing to its low level. A tor-past summer. on tre. whole was fect at some length and was satisfied frentiat' downpour of even' a few Earded az not'an unhealthy or, Togarding. its practicability, "Details hours' duration has always brought The mortality" port stated that of the scheme will be contained in in its wake the submergence of oMelal communique which the Etnttal als and eapecany. the Sime: will issue to. the Press early date, it was learned yesterday. outlying districts. mere fore 80 deste among foreign Fesldenls and 3,050 among the Cole hose' population. Of the tortness Wore 'German Sena settee, 8 Huge Damage Caused Considerable discussion has revolve Roncchinese" Aalties" 35" apanese ed: Found: the- question' of flood pre~ Yor years numerous engineers and dnd-one malan. OF the latter 2108 vention which has been revived every lethers "have" thought "out various were exposed coppers, Beaths among summer when the torrential down schemes to relieve what had always ours brought in their train the an-been an urgent situation, but no con-Shine were else ave to some frunicable"iseases "and! tuvereuocis, ual loss by: water damage. which in the aggregate runs into. staggering tele proposal has ever been put into Typhoid fever, senility and diseases practi¢e to harness the flood waters the digestive system. "The foreign Agures,, compared with" which. the Of prevent liquid. invasions. of the death rate war i234 per mille Councit's" proposed "expenditure "of jelty'which yearly have caused a dam~ Reverting to communicable tieeasey $490,000 wontd appear a mere baéaye amounting to more than $1,000,
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