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For the past year as regards myself, I should say 60

or 70 cases.

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During the plague season, I send everyone to the

mortuary, if the plague is bad.

And about how many cases, which you have seen, that the

Doctor has seen also afterwards?

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You mend every body to the mortuary ?

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Yes, during the plague season. I have sent to the

mortuary a very old decrepid old man, and you would'

naturally think he had consumption, but it is found

Afteswards he has had plague. So, when the plague is

bad, I send every body to the mertuary,

Do you think, going into the historical part of the 19154

cuses you went into, and people told you the deceased

had very high fever, and they could not find anything

else, what would you diagnose that as ?

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That is one of the things we have to guess at.

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And therefore, you might put down typhoid ?

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If we thought it was typhoid, we would put it in the

mortuary. I would not issus a burial order.

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I understand that what you mean is that, looking at ‘a

body and not being a medical man, and if you think you

dany guess what it has died of, you issue a burial

order, but if it is an infectious dissage or plague or

typhoid, you send the body to the mortuary ?

Yes.

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And on the strength of that, you bury 70 bodies a year,

which are never examined by a doctor ?

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On your own certificate ?

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Yes.

And nobody's olɛe ?

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That is so.

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