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"The Medical Officer of Health informs me that between the 1st January and the 31st August last 28 houses were found deserted in which plague had occurred and 3 in which there had been small-pox. However, 24 out of the 180 cases of small-pox were dumped in the street and 17 cases of plague as well. 112 cases of small-pox were reported after death.
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"As I am no longer acting Chairman of the Committee I do not wish to press my recommendations, but my minute was prepared sometime ago and was only held over pending the verification of some figures."
Tables according to the scheme have been rearranged: brought down to the end of 1911 and grouped in periods of 5 years, 1902-1906, 1907-1911.
Table I shews that in the second period the average percentage of unclaimed bodies for plague fell from 30.6 to 16.1; the percentage of 1911 being 4.8 on 269 cases as against 4 per cent on 25 only in 1910.
For small-pox the percentages are 37.1 for the second period as against 50 per cent. for the first: 1911 shewing a rate of 28 per cent. on 271 cases as against 31.8 on 22 cases in 1910.
Table II deals with the cases discovered after death.
In plague 52 per cent. for the second period as against 73.2 for the first. (1911 35.3 on 269 cases. 1910 48 per cent. on 25 cases.)
In small-pox 69.4 for the second period as against 69.1 for the first. (66.4 1911 on 271 cases, 63.6 on 22 cases 1910.)
For plague the figures may I consider be taken as satisfactory; in considering the slight set back in the percentage of 1911 as compared with 1910, the difference in the total number of cases must be taken into account, as must also the exceptional number of strangers in the Colony as a result of the troubles in China. This influx must naturally have tended to throw back the sanitary education of the Chinese.
For small-pox, the results cannot be called altogether satisfactory. The total percentages (always too high) have risen slightly, and last year shews a bad return. The influx would be expected to have more effect in connection with small-pox than with plague; for the small-pox education even of residents of the Colony being necessarily more exacting is far short of the plague education. Sanitary precautions can be and have been safely relaxed in plague; but no relaxation has yet been found advisable in small-pox. To the Chinese mind this is hardly consistent, for even educated Chinese are in the habit of treating small-pox very lightly. The disinfection by the Sanitary Department of all cubicles and clothing...
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"The Medical Officer of Health informs me that between the "1st January and the 31st August last 28 houses were found "deserted in which plague had occurred and 3 in which there had "been small-pox. However, 24 out of the 180 cases of small-pox were dumped in the street and 17 cases of plague as well. 112 cases of small-pox were reported after death.
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"As I am no longer acting Chairman of the Committee I do "not wish to press my recommendations, but my minute was pre- "pared sometime ago and was only held over pending the verifica- "tion of some figures."
Tables according to the scheme have been rearranged: brought down to the end of 1911 and grouped in periods of 5 years, 1902- 1906, 1907-1911.
Table I shews that in the second period the average percentage of unclaimed bodies for plague fell from 30-6 to 16·1; the percent- age of 1911 being 4.8 on 269 cases as against 4 per cent on 25 only
in 1910.
For small-pox the percentages are 37.1 for the second period as against 50 per cent. for the first: 1911 shewing a rate of 28 per cent. on 271 cases as against 31-8 on 22 cases in 1910.
Table II deals with the cases discovered after death.
In plague 52 per cent. for the second period as against 73.2 for the first. (1911 35-3 on 269 cases. 1910 48 per cent. on 25 cases.)
In small-pox 69.4 for the second period as against 69.1 for the first. (66-4 1911 on 271 cases, 63-6 on 22 cases 1910.)
For plague the figures may I consider be taken as satisfactory ; in considering the slight set back in the percentage of 1911 as com- pared with 1910, the difference in the total number of cases must be taken into account, as must also the exceptional number of strangers in the Colony as a result of the troubles in China. This influx must naturally have tended to throw back the sanitary education of the Chinese.
For small-pox, the results cannot be called altogether satis- factory. The total percentages (always too high) have risen slight- ly, and last year shews a bad return. The influx would be expected to have more effect in connection with small-pox than with plague; for the small-pox education even of residents of the Colony being necessarily more exacting is far short of the plague education. Sanitary precautions can be and have been safely relaxed in plague; but no relaxation has yet been found advisable in small-pox. To the Chinese mind this is hardly consistent, for even educated Chinese are in the habit of treating small-pox very lightly. The disinfection by the Sanitary Department of all cubicles and clothing
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