11 Oct 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Submitted by brian edgar on

Things might be hard in Stanley but they're much worse in Kowloon's Shamshuipo POW Camp: today the number of deaths in an epidemic of diphtheria and related diseases peaks at 6. In contrast, there were 7 deaths in Stanley between August 18 and 13 December - and the youngest person to die was 45 years old, while most of those in Shamshuipo were of course of miitary age.

Sources:

Shamshuipo: Tony Banham, We Shall Suffer There, 2009, October 11, 1942

Stanley: Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 2008, 186

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