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No.143
Sir:-
C. O.
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HER MAJESTY'S CONSULATE, CANTON, REG 15.00 34)
August 30th, 1894. 293
With reference to my despatch No.11 of 4th
July, inclosing a report on the recent outbreak of
the plague in these parts, I have the honour to
inform you that the disease had ceased to be epi- demic here by the end of July when the people ap- peared no longer to trouble themselves about it.
During the present month there have been sporadic cases, but yesterday, in reply to inquiries at the Plague Hospital in this city I was informed that
in neither of them had there been a single case of
plague for several days, and that the large matshed Hospital that had been erected to the west of the city especially for plague patients was in course of
removal.
Further the superintendent physician of
the American Missionary Hospital here wrote to me
yesterday as follows:-
je linder Secretary of State,
Foreign Office.
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