THE CHINA MA
GER
BER 11, 1937.
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20,000 DEAD FROM UEENS
DISEASE IN THE SHANGHAI AREA
Measles ranks diseases, exposure to the elements third with 2,000 deaths since the and starvation have caused more epidemic of this disease started six than 20,000 deaths among destitute weeks ago. Chinese, most of them war refu
Plague and other communicable camps unchecked.
Feeding Is Big Job
gees, in the International Settle- Beri-beri, typhoid fever, scarlet ment and the French Concession fever, tuberculosis and diphtheria since the beginning of Sino-Ja- have been prevalent among the re- panese hostilities in the Shanghai fugees at all times since the begin- ning of the war and more than 5,000 area last August.
destitute Chinese have succumbed
Malnutrition among infants and
This appalling revelation is con- to these diseases. tained in a report just issued by the Pu Shan Benevolent Associa- tion, a Chinese charitable organisa-starvation among adults are estim- ated by the health authorities to tion engaged in the burial of the
have been responsible for dead bodies of paupers and civilian than 3,000 deaths while cold and war victims picked up from the re- fugee camps and the streets of the exposure have cost another 2,000 city.
lives.
more
Although doing their utmost to The organisation employs morenght the ravages of both disease than 150 truck drivers and coolies and cold, health workers and char who do nothing else but transport table institutions are facing a dead. A similar body of workmen more serious problem as the months are engaged in doing nothing else of December and January approach but manufacturing rough board than they did during the early days
coffins.
Figures Accurate
To make
of the war. There are more than 350,000 destitute refugees still in the city and the task of feeding them It is the only institution of its is a colossal one in view of the kind functioning in Shanghai at present food shortage. the present time and the bodies of matters worse, many of these un-! all dead Chinese destitutes are fortunates are still wearing their turned over to it for disposal by summer clothing. the American, British and French; health officials. For this reason, its figures are accepted as being as nearly accurate as they possibly can be under existing troubled con- ditions.
The Association, according to its
SEA MONSTER SEEN
BY DEVON ANGLER
Face Like A Camel's"
report, gave burial to an average of 200 bodies daily from August 14,
Mr. Harold Groves, head gar- the day after the war started, until November 10, or a total of 19,420. dener to Mr. Cyril Mande, From the latter date, when cold Radlap, Dartmouth, the actor, weather set i, up to the present described how he saw "a sea mon- time, the average has been 270 ster with the face of a camel in daily, or approximately 4,500, mak Start Bay”
ing a grand total of almost 25,000. "I was fishing in Redlap Cove Of this latter figure, 2,500 were the in the evening," he said, "when, unidentified bodies of men, women looking out to sea, I saw about and children killed by bombs and 50 yards away a creature swim- stray shells and bullets which fell ming in the water. It had three in the foreign controlled areas dur- humps and there was at least ing the seige of Chapei and the 12ft of its body above the sur- sack of Nantao. Another 2,500 bo- face dies buried were brought into the, Settlement and the Concession from
"I pulled up my fishing gear to too for a bet- Chinese governed districts, leaving climb to the cliff
a 20,000 death toll for the two for-ter view, but when I raised my
eign areas.
head again I was startled to see right in front of me the head of the monster.
30 Per Cent Children About 30 per cent of these dead were children, many whom had be "The monster had a face like come separated from their parents a camel's. The head was about during the great migrations of ve 2ft long. A tuft of hair on thé fugees from the war zones in Autop of the skull was qutie thick, guster:Another 30 per cent were otherwise the head was entirely almost
newly born infants who had either hairless and the se
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been left abandoned in the streets white. It had large, unblinking by their mother or who had died of
eyes, bigger than golf balls, and mal-nutrition.
it was really uncanny the way According to the foreign health it stared at me. authorities, cholera accounted for Mr. Cyril Mande did not seel more than 4,000 deaths out of 8,100 the monster, but his comment reported among var victims was: “My gardener has had a lot who sought refuge from bul- of experience of the sea, I am lets and shrapnel in the Settlement certain he did see the thing he and the French Concession. The has described to you. epidemic of this disease has now
been checked, deaths having drop- ped to a more dozen a week since
This plague is ex bear completely
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