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more or less experimental ↑
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with plague, it certainly is.
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Does beri beri give the M. O. H. much trouble ↑ It does not give me any trouble. Only one day, I made
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Is there much beri beri here ?
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A great deal.
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What do you mean by a great deal ↑
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There are several hundreds of deaths annually.
Is it endemic ↑
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It is endemic all over the East. Some years are much worse than others. For example, in 1904, it was very bad, but I and Dr Barnett and Dr Macfarlane feel it rather a disgrace that having been in a beri beri country so long, we have not had an opportunity of studying it. There was beri beri in the Po Leung Kuk, in which I suggested to the Registrar General that I should go there and make enquiries. I went to Mr Lau Chu Pak's and I started my enquiries, and suggested that every particle of clothing should be disinfected, to ascertain whether it was a disease that would be Enten "influented." oured by disinfection. I sent an Inspeator to take
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If it was a case of plague, or cholera, would you have taken a hand ↑
I would have been stopped.
Therefore it was a onne of professional jealousy ↑
I would not onll it jealousy.
Biquette ↑ That ́in a better word.
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