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As Rinderpest had been prevalent on the mainland and I have observed some mysterious connexion between Rinderpest and Plague which frequently develops after rinderpest has been pronounced, I sent early in January for the Medical Officer of Health and instructed him to send in at once his suggestions for dealing effectively with a possible recurrence of Plague in epidemic form during the year, and on the 28th January I received his suggestions, anticipating that No.9 District would probably be the worst; he recommended that
(a). Eight European Constables should make a thorough house-to-house visitation once a week, each to speak Chinese or have an Interpreter,
(b). That to prevent the depositing of dead bodies in the street the Police patrol of that district should be augmented by swearing in fifty Indian soldiers as special Constables to be controlled by a European Officer, the same system to be extended to other districts should the Plague spread,
(c). That the Light Regulations (Section 31 of Ordinance