شهر دیا
No.
27
Government House,
dong long.
24th January, 1901.
117
C.0
7207
By Book Post
Rel
K
30 FEB OF
sir,
I have the honour to transmit to you
herewith 12 copies of the Report on the Epidemic of -
Bubonic Plague in Hongkong in the year 1900.
2.
It will be observed that while' the
number of deatha was almost the same as in 1896 the per-
centage of mortality is higher being 96,5 am against #9.5
in 1896
3,
Of the 428 houses infected cases oc-
curred last year in 54 or 12.58 % and the mmber of in-
fected houses noted as being in a bad sanitary condition
is 29 or
Ada
4.
Kore than one case occurred in 43
houses or 10 %.
5.
Having regard to the large proportion
of houses in which only: a single: case has been recorded
both last year and in 1899 it has occurred to me that
the centres of infection may be found in the rice go-
downs and other places where large numbers work.
last year plague broke out among the
coclise working in the godowns of the Kowloon Wharf ---
Company who had made excellent provisions for housing
their co lies and who prevented them from crossing the
harbour to Victoria. The plague appeared after the s
storing
EIGHT, FONOURABLE -
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
&0...
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