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used more especially during the first few days of life while waiting for milk to come into the breasts or while making arrangements for a wet-nurse. Another method is that of eiving king chee.Wher bought at the shops this is found to be whole dried persimmons which are shrunken and are ahout the con- -sistency of Aried fies. They are, I am told, given to the child in small pieces unsoaked hatween drinks of water.Or soak ire

them in water they swell considerably and can easily he broken up into soft stringy pieces of a yellowish celour. During the thirteen months Jan.1907 to Feb.1908 there have heer

examined at the Hongkong Public Mortuary three hundred and

eighty three live horn children under the are of one month,

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And in six of these. death was considered to be due to the mechan

- ical effects of overfeeding with ing chee.

The cases are as followà;-

Case I,was a male, judged by the condition of the cord

to be about seven days old. T he over distended stomach was

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tightly packed with masses of king chee, there was no free

luid in the stomach. The king chee was moist hut appeared as

though it would take up more moisture.

Case 2, was a male considered to he shout six days old.

There was a large lump composed of pieces of imperfectly

soaked king chee in the atomen partly covered by shreds of

the digeated stomach. There was acute peritonitis matting the

intestines and the remains of the stomach. The umbilical cord

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was separating normally and the umbilical vein was normal in

appearance,

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