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29
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of quarantine by the Govern ments of Singapore and
Batavia.
10.
Early in April the Sanitary Board recommend- ed that, in view of the danger involved in sending inmates from plague infected houses
to Canton, where the disease
again
1 had by that time
assumed formidable-di-
mensions, sheds should be
created in the Colony for their segregation while their
clothing
clothing
was
being disinfected.
Three such sheds have according
ly been created,
one each in
the East, West, and Central
portions of the City, and are being used for the temporary housing of the inmates of in- fected houses whilst the latter being cleansed and disin-
are
fected.
//.
On the 6th April I found it necessary to apply to His Excellency the General Officer Commanding for Military