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I am inclined to think that this overcrowding with its vitiation of the atmosphere of rooms and the intimate personal contact which is a result of such overcrowding, is probably the greatest factor in the spreading of a Plague epidemic.
I have, &c.,
WILFRID WM. PEARSE, M.B., D.P.H., ABERDEEN,
Acting Medical Officer of Health.
List of Appendices.
1. Occupations of Plague cases.
2. List of Plague cases arranged in Districts and Streets for Hongkong and Kowloon.
3. List of obstructed lanes in which Plague has occurred.
4. Staff.
Appendix 1.
Occupations.
The following is a list of the various occupations of the Plague infected per- In the majority of cases no information can be gathered as to the nature of their employment :--
sons.
Cooks, ...
Brought forward,... 166
Barbers,
Sewing Women,
...
+
Messengers,..
~ G w
Seamen,
Married Women,.
Painters,
...
Contractor,
1
Engineers,
Labourers,
55
Tailors.
House Coolies,
2
Disinfecting Coolies,
Printer,
Rickshah,
Butcher,
Scavenging
1
35
Punkah
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3
2
25 NO UT LODH N
Office
12
•
►
1
Carpenters, Fitters,... Mafoo, ... Rice-pounder, Interpreter, Servant Boys,
Shop
.
Shop Coolies,
Merchants,
Prostitutes,
Hawkers,
Bricklayers,
Godown-keepers,. Policeinen,
Police Inspector,... Sanitary Inspectors, School Teacher,
Amahs, Lighterman, Mason,...
...
...
2
3
..
15
2
...
16
***
1
Carried forward,... 166
Bamboo splitters,
Box-maker,
Blacksmith,
Stone-breaker,
Scaffolder,
Watchmen,
Apprentices, Prisoners,
Gaol Wanders, Clerks,... Rat-catchers, Quartermaster, Fortune-teller,
Chinese Doctor, Hospital Nurses,
Boatmen,
School Boys,
...
...
Latrine Caretaker,
Servant Girls,
+
***
**
4
25
3
19
12
2
3
2
1
Ι
7
...
1 16
Pea-nut Sheller,
Bodies dumped,
...
Children unknown, Others
1 433
96
...
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54-4
Total,......1,363