ខ i 2 women shall have like facilities, but the Board reports that they would not use them. I propose however that one or two shall be provided as an experiment, 470 I have now given you every information as to the efforts made to combat the disease during the present year, efforts that I regret to say seem to have been unavailing. From one experiment just completed it is possible that good results may be obtained, Seeing in the Bombay reports that where a house was thoroughly disinfected plague did not recur that year, and observing from the full particulars given in our returns of the past three years that more than one case in any house was comparatively rare, I directed the Medical Officer of Health to select the worst centre of the disease and to thoroughly disinfect a given area. (hitherto only the floor on which a case occurred was disinfected). This was carried out on the 21st and 22nd June, and if within that area no more cases occur this year I think it will afford grounds for taking legal power to disinfect all houses within the City, when next year it will be advisable to employ a very large number of men in February and disinfect the entire City quarter by quarter. If that does not succeed, the question will remain