from Hongkong without Splary up to and including 30th inst.
in
3 RAM
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ffice or Individual.
"Gown J
Date.
| 1896
116 Nov
at previous Paper.
mit
in brackets
Hong kong
No 233H
(Subject.)
Bubonic Plague
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DOMESTIC.
23734
Pre 18 NOV 36)
625
Supfection is the probable method of its introduction into the Colony
Mr Fairfield
(Minutes.)
I do not think this letter throws any very startlingly new light on the cause of the Bubonic Plague: it is obvious that gangs of filthy ill-accommodated Chinamen are likely to propagate disease. Acknowledgement [with some expression of thanks?]
P.C.M 18/11/ C.PL. 18
would
11
B&L(78)—7810}~~15000-4-86
a subsequent Paper