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"29 January regret to inform
you 119 cases of plague 12 January!
since
Since the despatch of
that telegram 35 fresh
cases
have occur.
of Bubonic plague red bringing the total number of cases since the beginning of the year up to 154.
3.
Having regard to the
large Chinese population it can-
not be said to have assumed as
yet alarming proportions, and I trust that with the strict.
precautions
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being taken
-precautions that are
and the sanitary improvements
which have been and are in
course of being effected, the disease will not spread. It is at present limited to a small district of the town-vir to the West of Taipingshan.
4.
J
may
add that in
reply to my enquiries I have received a telegrain from Her Majesty's Consul at Canton to the effect that the plague has considerably decreased in that
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