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oeeu.
work is still in progress. The total number of pied Chinese houses in the is 6,350, but as a number
city
of these are
occupied by well -to-do Chinese, no interference
on the part of the Sanitary
It is.
| Board is necessary.
hoped that before long every house in the City requiring attention will have been
cleansed and limewashed.
13.
Having described in
detail the sanitary
measures mea
which
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which have been taken to cope with the disease, I now proceed to deal with the subject from
a medical point of view.
I am informed by
14.
D. Lowson that the type of the
disease is identically the same
as in 1894, a full description
of which is
given
in
that
officer's report, forwarded in ` my despatch N.122 of 16th April, 1895.
I enclose a return
Enclosur 2. 15.
showing the number of cases and deaths to date and the
number