Cholera Epidemics in Shanghai & Hongkong The cholera epidemics which have been raging in Hongkong and Shanghai have taken a heavy toll of life up to the present, while a further heavy death roll is likely before they are over. Of the two epidemics that in Hongkong is unquestionably the more severe, the ratio between deaths and cases being much higher than in the Shanghai area. Statistics of the Shanghai epidemic from August 1 to September 29 showed a total of proved cases of 837 with a death roll of 168 in the International Settlement and the French Concession. By October 15 these figures had increased to 1,547 cases with 468 deaths. It must be noted, however, that a large number of unreported cases and deaths have taken place in the outside roads areas, where the Public Heath Departments of these Municipalities are unable to enforce their regulations; while no statistics have been issued regarding the number of cholera cases and deaths in the Chinese administrated areas of Greater Shanghai. Here the epidemic has probably been even more severe than in the areas under foreign administration. Cholera has been reported as raging in Kiangsu north of the -Yangtze Estuary, while it was also reported as having broken out amongst the Japanese forces in the Woosung and Paoshan areas, the Japanese making the allegation that the Chinese had deliberately infected the water in these .areas before retiripg. With cholera raging in all parts of the Lower Yangtze region, as well as in other provinces in Eastern China, this charge appears ,a little far-fetched, to say the least of it. Needless to say it was vigorously ,denied by the Chinese authorities. The Chungshan Hospital, situated on the Chinese side of Siceawei Creek, has been turned into a cholera isolation hospital with a capacity of from three to four hundred beds. This hospital was completed about a year ago, and in normal times is one of the most important of the Chinese-run hospitals in the Shanghai area. Other enteric diseases, such as typhoid and dysentery (both forms), .are also rampant in the Shanghai area and have taken a heavy toll of lives, ,especially amongst the Chinese refugees.