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disease during the period of isolation, and they

were

of

course at once removed to

the Kennedy Town Hospital for treatment.

(3). The house in which

the case occurred was

at once closed and guarded by the Police until it had~ | been thoroughly cleansed,

disinfected, and whitewashed. under the supervision of the Medical Officer of Health _at_ tacked to the Sanitary Board,

3.

3.

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During the greater part Canton was report

of January

ed to be almost entirely free

from the disease, but towards

the end of that month it be

came more

prevalent there. This fact materially altered the state of affairs and as, in view of the difficulty of restricting the passenger – traffic from that port, from which Hongkong derives the greater part of its food supply: the Colony was in

any

*

case

exposed