Word: cholerae
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What epidemiologists expected ever since the Japanese began to bombard China's big cities-disrupting sanitary systems, interrupting food supplies and turning the cities into armed camps filled with large concentrations of men-by last week was in full swing. Plagues were everywhere rampant, particularly cholera. This cause of black vomit & death was dropping 100 a day in Shanghai's International Settlement alone...
...exuberant refugee, Miss Therese Rudolph, who says she went unscathed through the first Japanese bombing of the International Settlement (TIME, Aug. 23), has now translated the emotions she experienced into a hot-cha-cha routine, the "Shrapnel Swing" (see cut). In Shanghai last week the 2,527th case of cholera was certified in the International Settlement alone, with 563 victims of cholera dead and doctors vaccinating night and day in efforts to head off an epidemic of smallpox. Conditions were so appalling that Japanese insisted on sterilizing all food brought out of the Settlement before they would venture to feed...
Plague & No Prisoners. The cholera scare at Shanghai (TIME, Sept. 27) had grown to a ghastly actuality last week with 1,600 cases in the International Settlement alone. Reputedly thousands of natives were down with the plague in their Chapei section into which Japanese sent occasional shells and bombs...
...Cold weather will lessen the cholera danger and do more good than all the doctors in China!" was the hope all Shanghai voiced. Correspondents were startled to see internes working tirelessly over plague victims who to a layman's eye showed no sign of life whatever, although many thus stricken have been saved. Marveled a newsman who had been out on an ambulance: "They all looked dead...
Still the only U. S. citizen to come down with cholera in Shanghai was H. A. Ferguson of Buffalo. No cholera statistics were available from Chinese sections of Shanghai but in the French Concession alone there were 450 cases, with cholera-afflicted foreigners observed to succumb more rapidly than Chinese. Japanese authorities admitted 200 of their soldiers were down with cholera at Paoshan, and the Chicago Daily News's unsensational Reginald Sweetland cabled: "Swarms of cholera flies stream into homes, restaurants and offices, and [Shanghai] health officials feel that only a sudden change of weather with heavy showers...