Death Toll and Damage
Chinese sources usually indicate the death toll of the Yangtze River overflow at about 145,000, with flood damage affecting around 28.5 million, while most Western sources give a far higher death toll of between 3.7 and 4 million people.
Read more about this topic: 1931 China Floods
Famous quotes containing the words death, toll and/or damage:
“To these, whom Death again did wed,
This grave’s the second Marriage-bed.”
—Richard Crashaw (1613?–1649)
“The fact that the mental health establishment has equated separation with health, equated women’s morality with soft-heartedness, and placed mothers on the psychological hot seat has taken a toll on modern mothers.”
—Ron Taffel (20th century)
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