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Mr Fung wa Chun:-

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ar Shelton Hooper:-

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I cant remember without my records.

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Say a ratcatcher has a certain spite against a certain

person, and every day he reports a rat caught else-

where, as having been caught in that person's house,

surely by mere chance he is able sooner or later to

gratify his spite ↑

I dont admit that it would be easy for a ratcatcher to

tell which rate are likely to be infected.

But are not some rate so bad, that there is a bubo 13,328

visible. Dont they have it the same as human beings ↑

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To a certain extent.

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A ratcatcher might get a very good omse ?

A.

A ratcatcher might have a grouss queso.

The Chairman ? -

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But if he found a rat in a comatose state, that would

be a good ground for suspecting it had plague ?

A.

Yes,

And he might label it to acertain house ↑

A.

Yes.

Ir Lau chu Pak:-

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As a matter of fact, two or three years ago, rats were 133 32

imported into the Colony by Chinese ?

I suspected they were not imported by our coolies, but

probably brought from rios junks. It is quite possible

that a large number of rats were brought by junk, not

specially imported.

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They reported to the Sanitary office that these rats (3 34 3

were caught in such and such a house, in spite of the

fact that they were imported.

A.

Page 1770.

They were not imported, but the majority were found im

the street, or in the lanes. In fact, as soon as we

gave up that system of bonus for each rat, the number

of rats each day dropped considerably, but the

proportion of rats found in houses inoreagad, not only

relatively, but actually.

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