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and Miss Ireland, nursing sisters in the Government Civil Hospital. It is impossible for me to speak in too high terms of the manner in which Dr Wilm and the two sisters have carried out their difficult and dangerous duties. I have thanked the German Admiral for the loan of Dr Wilm's services, which have been most valuable, and should be glad if you could cause a communication to that effect to be made to the German Ambassador to London : Miss McIntosh, as I have already stated, was so unfortunate as to contract the disease in the performance of her duties, but I am glad to be able to report that though the attack was a severe one she is now convalescent.
7. D. Yersin, the celebrated bacteriologist, who studied the plague here in 1894 and rendered valuable assistance to the Government