Believing that a house was on fie, three machines turned out to Rue Massenet yesterday, only to be told that a Chinese had committed suicide by jumping Into a well at 62 Rue Mastenet. Lieut, G, Bossu, new fire chiot in the Concession, was present at the scene, The body was taken Out and sent to the mortuary.
Inthe Settlement. an emergency ambulance was sont'at 1217" pam, to Markham Road bridge to convey two Chinese to Paulun Hospital after they' had been crushed by a launch in the creek. One of the men was prow nounced dead on admission, but the other, suffering from. laceration of scalp, was progressing favourably.
Tue Shanghai Municipal. Counett health report for the week ending midnight "May 17, shows that the total number of deaths from all causes amongst the foreign and Chinese population in the. Settlement was—Forelgners "25" and Chinese 1088, Deaths "from notifiable dis-scases were—Forelgners, tuberculosis 2 typhoid fever 2 and. smallpox, cerebrospinal, fever, "typhus fever tone each. 'Chinese. tuberculosis 03; typhoid. fever 40; measles 17; beri= beri 6; relapsing fever 5; influenza 4; diphtheria 3; dysentery' 3; typhus fever 3: cerebrospinal fever 2 and paratyphoid fever one.
Funeral music was played by the Police band.
Before the body was encofined, members from the French Police, Shanghai Fire Brigade and Shanghai Municipal Police paid homage sepat= ately-and in groups.
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