Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-03
DEATH RATE Is 200 DAILY
Known FATALITIES from Famine and
Plague Thirty Thousand.
ONE MILLION EXPECTED 10 DIE
Local Authortttea Careless and
IEnorunt Of How 20 Maintain
Adequate sanitarr
Wengurra-

FEKING China March the Srrur
6ssths tc Gate from fa--lios sns the plague
number ~ or and according % the ufnciHl
Statistics TIRE death rszs averages 30
dHllg. BIT the officials have little know
edge q the CONDITIONS IN the interior. cr
Z TIER hsvs ther are NOT permitting the
facts 10 become known
u e. Impossible even % estimate tire
number q deaths that have resented from
lack q food. uT Samuel Cachrn-. an
A American who IS engaged IN The work q
rslisf writes
One million peor'e VII die before ne
fi-Et crop Is harvested This VIII be s-srrv
became the people have not the strength
70 un the soil and no animals remain
Tor ulow1nE~
The Chinese are directing their efforts
70 control TIE plaque chiefly along -Ns
railways and frontiers for political rsa-
sons Since the recent Russian request for
permission 90 cross the border and cus--
hurine the Chinese towns along the A-,v-
China has been attempting 20 check ths
plague along that frontier hrt m Russian
legation SAYS this has been done fueffert-
ively because there has been no doctors
there who are familiar with modern r,sfh-
DDS q sanitation
Local authorities. including he police
and soldiers. IN former erideruicr ls4t the
reopls 70 tis; nov they a. not cn-s or
Do net know bow g MAINTAIN R5eguat.
sanitary measures. Althourh the central
Eovsrumsut has issued explicit orders and
mHLy q than both supplies and funds
are lacking
japanese and Russians have both offered
Assistance tut only in a few places have
these offers been soosptsd. the Chinese
not HIKING 10 receive fBvurs from foreirp-
ers whose political motives they distr71Et
Warn weather win asa.
Physicians snEHEsd IN combating the
disease are q the op8niun that warn
weather VIII ldu the germs. although ms
may bring only a Temporary respite. II
TIE plague VAS q the bubo1ic type. tbs
sumner beat w0uld serve 70 aurnsn+ IL
The pneumonia type is transmitted ttY-ourh
The respiratory apparatus and as q con
sequence when the Chinese erpe-re from
their winter quarters into the open Al
they VII escape much oaurs-nfuEt5or. II
Is said by the medical Authorities that
such al epidemic as The present one. which
y entirely rnsumuEdc has not visited IN
world since the middle AGES
Owing 10 the local questions irroFred ana
~-S tAIeselue o. Lore1 EDETE along the rail-
way the plague IN MEDch uriR is reoeir5nr
greater attention thai the famine. but the
death rate from the famine is many times
greater than thai from the plague
The famine is the result u the dsvtrnc-
uon q The crops by far o. sixteen inches
OF rA1n n two days last August IN dis
ir9ct Whsre the people ordinarily have q
hAno-Io-znUuth existence. As soon a. tbs
11rEt pEngE q hunger we're fen the people
leff their homes, hr1 many OF them were
unable to get beyond the borders Of the
osvAstAnun- They returned and took u,
the osR1h EtraEEls beside their home
SteRdk
relief committee OH pased q roreirp-
srS At Shanghai iE collecting money. So
Tar japan and sARsr5ezlsre she onar for
eiEn countries that have en- tr1hu1ed 70 asd
the sucfsrerE but even the extensive As
EastEnes thai has come from the United
States Is entirely Inadequate
Il 10 estimated that R.S8B OO0 rsouIs n.
without food and are existing on roofs
grasses OF anything that affords The
slightest o. nou-1shms1t- Those possessing
grain guard Il night and DAY
PROM the famine the death rat. a sew
srsl thousand daily.