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Show fC • The -oast week-, beginning with Sun., the 19th, began to come in Typhoidsr or so they seemed, Ey nice Pu GEia Teh helping me, we Widalled them a l l f^rRm^f-phoid and the Para-typhoids, both microscopically and Macro scop i c a l l y -^Ejne Sedimentation t e s t s * The f i r s t three, all . were Par a-typhoid, "A"- hy both test's. One i s the bright 21-yr old SzCh'uenese* of the Wireless o u t f i t that the' sold i e r s bring with them. Ee i s doing wall, unless he has a relapses another,ever\ b e t t e r - in h i s 3rd wte. of i l l n e s s ; an#ther not so well, as y e t . Tomorrow we continue ¥ I d a l s 0 We had a great time scurrying around l a s t eve to find beds and bedding to take in a bunch of 4 s o l a i e r s , all i l l with high fever. Slood smears showed one of the 4 i n pi tit malaria. Just now, have examined Ch! i - s h i h - f u 1 s blood,, and he i s havine: a relarose of Malaria, thn I EOPD he took a l l the ouinine adwccated by the jfc&t Malaria! Commission of the League of Rat i o n s , in t h e i r 3rd r e s o r t , whs® he had (Tertian)Malaria^ l a s t f a l l ! If he was f a i t h f u l in. t h a t he should hardly have had. t h i s r e i a n l e . Eave found the ova, of Eook-worm and of Tape-worm the na.st v:3e, and Ascares and the Vliip-worm ( T r i c h u r i s GJrichuria) abound - in ALMOST everybody! Mi o f f i c i a l (military) i s i l l with AJEIBIC Dysentery - diagnosed with microscope, This "Day of Rest" has been nearly f i l l e d with special cases - as was l a s t Sun - abt 10, mostly s o l d i e r officials,"""today, SzChuenese. They move on tomorrow, A wk ago there arrvd from Tung CfEuen the n a t i v e P a s t e r , Er Yang, i l l one month with what PROBABLY was a p p e n d i c i t i s . Row, he has an aCbscess in the lit g r o i n , probably a walled off one from a p p e n d i c i t i s , to be operated upon soon. We've given an anesthetic for diagnosis - p a r t l y fearing a D so as abscess of g r o i n . Eo adequa.te meet11 help at Tung Ch'uen; even Mrs C o t t r e l l ' s helD,- as a t r a i n e d nurse not at hand, due to t h e i r having to be "evacuated" GO long! Row, ALE the Parte of the new ROSP have 'been contracted out, except the morgue! Your father estimates t h a t , with hewers of wood, s t o n e - c u t t e r s , and makers of n a i l s , there xxre 400 Chundredjmen on h i s p a y - r o l l some 111 the quarr i e s and f o r e s t s . On our t r i n two wks ago, to HGra#e Soring, or -Jell", we Passed stone and lime q u a r r i e s , which we p a t r o n i z e. Row evening. The ~dey has been EOT, with warm south ^strong wind blowing a g a l e . I t has been dry so long - since f i r s t of Mar, save for one small rain the middle of t h i s month - that the e n t i r e "set-up" IB so l i k e trying Shant'g weather, I f e l t much at home! Ee, "apparently yxe to have l i t t l e or no Spring} jumping from winter to summer! Think of i t ! Cherries Rave been on the market for s e v ' l days. They are small, but larger than those we could secure in Tsi~ nan, and T1ai-an - so seldom our o r i v i l a g e . ROW we do wish we were able to "can" these! Even now* at the beginning of the season, they cost abt 2$ gold a pound! Oranges Exe scarcer and dearer now -( soon to be gone. Eow we XIDYB reveled in having two to three oranges a day to eat for the past 6 months! and so inexpensively^ rj£o!-^deJ^ag^^as been ours a, few t i i i e s , to eat, in the a/bsence of Mr HudspethTj^way p o u r i n g for 2-J- weeks. We EOPE to have some s t r awberries, too, - perhaps! Ifve set out a good-sized bed of each strawberries and asparagus. EOPR they will y i e l d , In time. Our drought Is as nothing cornered to what they had In Shantung l a st summer t i l l in July. Then, the r a i n s came in floods, and 11JGE of southern Sungo Including the Rintslng areas, were flooded, and fuel (grass and roots and s t a l k s of crops) was cut off , t h e r e f o r e , as well as the cotton crop, a, minus q u a n t i t y . Eiss Murphy r e p o r t s that annually there i s marketed"^,000,000 worth of cotton in Rintslng, and tks& year none; so, more than half the shops and businesses in the c i t y have had to close! The floods In So Sung have been VHRY devastating, as well as vast, I wonder If you know about i t all? A high xxind i s the night, recently, blew over, breaking the trunk, of a l a r g e old willow t r e e , hard by the Eosp. I t just missed breaking the Lab'y ui&*- dow, behind which was at l e a s t one of our micro scopes(We have ours here, as well as one belonging to the Eosp - BOTE HUGE In u s e )! A t h i r d a i r - p l a n e r e c e n t l y flew over the city, onceja&'ain/ not l i g h t i n g! Just have wJ £ ^ - ^ i ^ - D c r £ t h g Rood i s betrothed to Er Reaver Eawton, an "independent" nisB'yAAxa^miSAt§S.^the,T romance of the Pek Isng School *£&§ p r Gordon Ring i s new Supt of Gneeloo Univ Eosp,- Dr P r i c e resigned -^ t r f l j)e# when Dr Ring goes en f u r l o . Rove to you, A, _^_A |
