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had occurred and who were in close contact with the patient segregated on large and roomy junks locally known

were

as

Marriage Boats, hired by Government for the purpose and anchored in the vicinity of Stonecutter's Island, where

they were servation for 10 days, 9 days - having been ascertained to

were detained under ob-

period of

be the maximum

incubation of the disease in 1894. Every attention was

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to

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to the comfort of those segregat ed who besides being fed at the expense of Government, were supplied with clothing whilst being disinfect. ed by the Sanitary Board be- fore being finally returned to them. After the period of

their

own was

were

10 days had elapsed, they at liberty, if still free from the disease, to return to the

eity,

or

to their own

houses

on the mainland. Only

one

or two persons developed the

disease