PLAGUE IN THE EAST
THOUSANDS OF CORPSES AWAIT , CREMATION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 6, 5 p.m. Pekin, February 6. Two thousand bodies of victims of the plague have been burnt at Fuchiamicn, and 4000 others await cremation. Bodies at Hulan arc piled in great heaps on the ice in the river, awaiting thaws in the spring. DOCTORS' HEROIC EFFORTS. A GOVERNMENT INSURANCE SCHEME. ONE VOLUNTEER DOCTOR IS DEAD. Received 7, 12.15 a.m. Pekin, February 6. English and other volunteer doctors are making heroic efforts in Manchuria to cope with the plague, and are working for sixteen hours daily in installing isolation hospitals and disinfecting plague areas. One volunteer doctor is dead, and another is stricken. The Chinese Government has promised £IOOO to the family of any doctor who dies in fighting the plague. British employees on the Imperial Chinese railways are pluckily running the trains with supplies to infected districts.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 233, 7 February 1911, Page 5
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150PLAGUE IN THE EAST Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 233, 7 February 1911, Page 5
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