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VI
CHÂTEAU RAMEAUX
Paris in summer-time is a very pleasant
place for those who belong to the Paris
qui s’amuse, but if you happen to belong to the
Paris qui travaille, it becomes another matter.
Especially so if you have to cope with an epidemic
of typhoid at the Villette among the hundreds
of Scandinavian workmen, and an epidemic of
diphtheria in the Quartier Montparnasse among
your Italian friends and their innumerable children.
Indeed, there was no lack of Scandinavian
children either in the Villette; and the few families
who hadn’t got any seemed to have chosen this
very time to bring them to the world, as often
as not with no other assistance, sage-femme
included, than myself. Most of the children too
small to catch typhoid started scarlet fever and
the rest whooping-cough. Of course there was
no money to pay for a French doctor, so it fell
upon me to look after them as well as I could.
It was no joke, there were over thirty cases of
typhoid among the Scandinavian workmen in
the Villette alone. Anyhow I managed to go to
the Swedish church in Boulevard Ornano every
Sunday to please my friend the Swedish
chaplain, who said it was to set a good example to
others. The congregation had dwindled down
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