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every reason therefore to be for believing that the outbreak is now at an end,
and although a few sporadic cases may and probably will from time to time occur,
do not anticipate that the disease will this year again assume dangerous proportions.
Clean Bills of Health are being issued by the Medical Officer for the Port,
in accordance with the recommendation of the Colonial Surgeon.
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3. The total number of cases up to noon on the 31st August, which was 1193, of which 1088 ended fatally, showing a death rate of 91 per cent, but I may mention that of the last 300 patients admitted alive to the Kennedy Town hospital no fewer than 87 or 29 per cent have been discharged cured, whereas during the epidemic of 1894 93 per cent of those admitted alive to