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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