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Kowloon District VI.-Hunghom.
In this district the table shews that a fair share of rats were collected and examined and that plague was fairly continuous amongst them from the 31st week of 1903 to the 11th week of 1904. Five fairly distinct waves may, however, be
detected in the curve.
It is remarkable that no plague cases were recorded in human beings from the 32nd week of 1903 until the 14th week of 1904.
Between the 16th and 23rd weeks of 1904 rats were being examined in slight- ly less numbers than usual, but no infected rats were reported. Five cases of human plague were, however, recorded during this interval, so that it would appear that the rat plague in this district from the 23rd to the 31st weeks of 1904 was secondary in point of time to the human plague.