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although I do not suggest that the whole city can he
treated with the same thoroughness, I see no reason why
similar methods in a modified form should not be adopted
12. Having given considerable attention to the question
of plagus in connection with several thousands of
employees I claim to possess some knowledge of the
subject from the Chinese point of view and I am
convinced that only a proportion of plague cases comes
within the knowledge of the Sanitary Authorities;
indeed as a rule only those unfortunates are reported
who are without friends to send them out of the Colony
and those whose home is in Hongkong.
13. The Colony maintains a large staff whose efforts to
cope with plaque will never in my opinion be successful
without the cooperation of the Chinese and this cooper-
ation can only be obtained by giving the Chinese freedom
to treat the sick in their own homew; and by applying
existing regulations only`in such instances where the
people will not of their own accord, keep their
premises clean.
• The treatment of sick Chinese in their own homes was I
understand tried experimentally under Sir Henry Blake'a
regime and records show that plague ran more or less
through the whole block of houses experimented upon.
The deduction made from this is that the disease
spread through the block in consequence of the first patients not having been isolated. The deduction which
it seems to me may be made with equal justice is that
in this instance the patients were not concealed and
the real extent of the disease was for once made known.
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