Exposure, especially during the past few coll days, and starvation caused by the high cost of living have token a heavy toll among the oer and underprivileged in Shanghai, The Shanghai Public Benevolent Cemetery at 210 Pakhoi Road reported yesterday that past few days adult deaths numbered between 30 and 40 and dead children picked up from streets and alleys, Between 70 and "80. daily. dead adults and 62 dead. child Nere picked up on Saturday alone. The November figures of- the dead, the biggest so for in this year, are adults and 1487 children, In the French Concession, 15 dead adults and more than' '30 dead children were buried by the Tung Jen Pu Yuen Tang, a Chinese philanthropic cemetery' on Saturday. The Union of Philanthropic Bodies, 2 Chinese organization in Yunnan Road, has sent circular letters 10 many other public bodies asking for generous support to the Union so that it may continue carrying out the various relief programmes during this winter including the estab-Tshment of a "winter home" for the poor near Tifeng Road whi Drocess of construction.
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