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and that for months all who reside in them will die. Dr. Deane who succeeded Dr. Lowry as Medical Offi- cer at Pakhoi, is reported to have said:- "One house may be so bad that anyone entering it will be seized but the next to it quite free from all danger". A native paper gives the following:- inside the city there lived a family in which seven out of eight had died of plague in the course of one day and the only survivor was a girl too ill to go out. A thief broke in, but to his astonishment the girl gave him money and asked him to buy coffins. On his return he found the girl also dead, and he shortly fell suddenly down himself and expired. The paper does not say who told the bale! Again in Hong Kong on the 20th May a Sanitary Party entered a house supposed to be empty and found there five dead bodies and four very serious cases all exhioiting pronounced symptoms of the plague (2) The extraordinary mortality among rats considered by the Chinese the distinguishing mark of this di- sease. From the middle of April to the middle of May 21,000 dead rats are said to have been paid for and buried in Canton by one official. Dirty houses harbour rats. These vermin live also in dry drains, but they die just the same in isolated undrained
houses on the Hills in Yunnan.
3.
Dogs and pigs which live much in houses are
reported