4
5
had occurred and who were in close contact with the patient segregated on large and roomy junks locally known
were
as
Marriage Boats, hired by Government for the purpose and anchored in the vicinity of Stonecutter's Island, where
they were servation for 10 days, 9 days - having been ascertained to
were detained under ob-
period of
be the maximum
incubation of the disease in 1894. Every attention was
1 paid
to
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to the comfort of those segregat ed who besides being fed at the expense of Government, were supplied with clothing whilst being disinfect. ed by the Sanitary Board be- fore being finally returned to them. After the period of
their
own was
were
10 days had elapsed, they at liberty, if still free from the disease, to return to the
eity,
or
to their own
houses
on the mainland. Only
one
or two persons developed the
disease