HOSPITAL PATIENT OF 110
SURVIVED FIVE REIGNS SHANGHAI, Jan. 20. The Lester Chinese Hospital to-day harbours the most unusual patient ever treated in Shanghai in the person of a Chinese woman 110 years old. This woman, Chang Sze, had lived her whole life in the village of Kingningchow, in south-western Shantung Province, until the flood caused by the Yellow River made her a refugee. Accompanied by her 38-year-old great-great-grandson, Mrs. Chang made her way to the railway and for the first time in her life boarded a train. At Pnkow her baggage roll containing her bedding, her one extra gown and the savings of a lifetime, amounting to £5, was stolen. En route to Shanghai' she and her great-great-grandson lost the address of their only living relative, who was a policeman here four years ago, but has now disappeared. Mrs. Chang, a widow for many years, lived through the reigns of five Emperors.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18960, 10 March 1936, Page 8
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