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And you give the man five days to ahate the nuisance ? No, according to the Ordinance, we must take summonses

out within five days as a limit.

When a death is reported at the office, whose duty is 9445~

it to go and view the body?

In office hours at Kowloon, it is the Plague Inspectoris

duty,

and out of office hours, it is mine.

And what do you do with the body, when you see it ? (9246 I go out and ask the people "How long he has been sick,

what we the matter, and the symptom". It is only a matter of guessing, this diagnosing business, because,

say there is no epidemic about, if I see a man is very

old, and very thin, if he has vomited a lot of phlegm,

I say he has died of consumption or brochitis, or

something of that sort.

And what do you do if you have diagnosed consumption,1927

what happens then?

I give a paper, a form,

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Give whom?

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The friend or relative. I give him a printed paper, and put on the proper cause of death, and then I give him that to take to the Police Station, and put on it "please issue burial order", and the Police Inspector enters that in his Register of Deaths, and he issues a

certificate for burial.

And therefore, that man may be buried without having (91*9

been seen by any doctor?

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Now, how many cases in Kowloon do you have in a year, of such a thing as that people heing buried on your diamosis of the disease, and the burial order being

issued by a Police Inspector ?

Well, I could give you that if I had my burial order

book here.

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