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attributed by the Chinese to the cold weather which pre-

during that period.

vailed during

7.

It was

of course

not to be expected that the Chinese would submit with

any great complacency to~ the compulsory inspection, disinfection, and cleansing of their dwellings, which ~

cannot be carried out with-

discomfort

some

out causing to those concerned, and, though I am happy to say that they

have

have shown themselves this

year

more

ready than in 1894

to recognise the absolute ne-

cessity in the interests of the public health of the sanitary

measures which have to be -adopted, they nevertheless have dis- played great unwillingness to come forward to report.

cases

their

of plague coming

under

Innumera

cognisance. Innum ble have been the devices and

subterfuges to which they have

had recourse in order to re-

move