Of the scores of the boys who have been admitted to the Church Missionary Hospital, not one has died. I understand that all the students refused to go to the Government Hospital here; it is not related on what account. No official information is forthcoming so far as to the reason the arsenic was mixed with the rice. The school here has the reputation in Hangchow of always having rows amongst the students, many of whom are unruly and undisciplined. Ancther popular theory amongst the Chinese as to the cause of so many deaths is attributed to the fact that recently in making structural alterations and improvements to the entrance of the school some "ancestral tablets," very old ones, had been removed and in consequence, evil spirits visited the school and caused the deaths! More of the uneaten rice has. been examined and arsenic found in large quantities.
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