TSINGTAO, To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cuna Dairy News."
Sir,—Can any of your readers inform me why the through pas-songers by the South Manchuria Railway Company's vessels to Tairen are compelled to undergo that useless and filthy ordeal of examination of their faeees at Tsingtao even though they do not desire to go ashore at Tsingtao.
Shanghai has not been declared an infected port, yet passengers who left Shanghai on August 23 by the str. Kobe Maru had a notice their room shortly after leaving Woosung, headed: "Kindly ready the pots to to-morrow at noon, as the culture will be held on the afternoon." This was followed by the ship's doctor visiting some of ths first class passenger rooms with a syringe, One can understand Japanese having a great dread of cholera, but why cake such filthy measures when the port of Shanghai has not been officially declared infected. Has the Japanese Consul declared Shanghai infected without consulting the port authorities, or is it that the South Manchuria Railway Company's ship's doctor has taken upon himself the declaration of this port being infected?
Tam, ete, Disevstep.
Shanghai, Sept, 0,
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