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peninsula of two storied houses fronting streets 50 feet wide and inhabited by the best paid working men of the Chinese Community, the workmen of the Hampoa Dock Company. I was so struck by this fact in apparent opposition to the various theories that I requested Major General Gascoigne to permit an officer of the Royal Army Medical Corps to make an independent report upon it, placing the services of a Sanitary officer and an officer of the Public Works Department at his disposal, I attach his report.
*The very high percentage of Mortality here has also engaged my attention. In the Epidemic of 18 it was 91.12%,
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In 1898.......................... 89.45%
In 1899.......................... 96.10%
In 1900.......................... 94.56%
In 1901.......................... 94.86%
This percentage is higher than that reported from other places and is generally supposed to be much higher than at Macao or Canton, though there are no figures available for the latter and at Macao local conditions render statistics on this subject unreliable as plague patients go across the harbour to the Chinese hospital in great numbers. I have visited the plague hospital on rare occasions and thoroughly inspected