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the Sanitary Board and under the following circumstances :- Plague had appeared in
• epidemic form at Maxas, Hoi- how, and Swatow, and it had
become imperative to take of
tive measures
against its
fective introduction into this Colony-
The Medical authorities I reported that to effect this object, it would be necessary to impose quarantine of not less than days on ships arriving from the infected ports including
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the
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the time occupied by the pas-
sage-
Seeing however that the
most distant of the infected
some 48
ports, Hoihow, is only hours from Hongkong, that the passage to dratow occupies only
36 hours, that Macao is
only some 3 hours distant, and that the service between Kongkong and those ports varies in fre-
quency relatively to the above respective distances (the service between Macao and Hongkong
being