12.
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attributed by the Chinese to the cold weather which pre-
during that period.
vailed during
7.
It was
of course
not to be expected that the Chinese would submit with
any great complacency to~ the compulsory inspection, disinfection, and cleansing of their dwellings, which ~
cannot be carried out with-
discomfort
some
out causing to those concerned, and, though I am happy to say that they
have
have shown themselves this
year
more
ready than in 1894
to recognise the absolute ne-
cessity in the interests of the public health of the sanitary
measures which have to be -adopted, they nevertheless have dis- played great unwillingness to come forward to report.
cases
their
of plague coming
under
Innumera
cognisance. Innum ble have been the devices and
subterfuges to which they have
had recourse in order to re-
move