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calm apprehension and prevent
the impost of unnecessary
restrictions on
13.
our
shipping I am afraid of ~~
even
further
having perhaps gone than I ought in the interests of commerce, on the supposition that the return of deaths from Cholera amongst the Chinese in
were reliable, whereas
the Colony
- find they
but
the
Necess.
are
anything
sary information
: being generally derived from the
& ignorant Chinese themselves _
instead
instead of from competent Medical authority. My conviction now is that Cholera, though not epidemie,
is much more
prevalent than has been represented, and that the reports from neighbouring -ports of ships having left Bongthing
with Cholera on board are well
founded.
14.
All this I submit tends to show directly or indirectly
how
imperfect is our organization
comparatively Quarantine,
in carrying out so con simple
a matter as
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