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move

patients and corpses

from the Colony without the Knowledge of the authorities,

instances with

and in many a view to avoiding enforced segregation, they deserted their

houses leaving victims of the

disease dead or

dying.

the

bodies not having been dis- covered till some days after

brought

death. One case was to light in which a corpse was being conveyed secretly

out of the Colony

as merchand

ise

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ise in a camphor-wood box.

In order, therefore to

8.

allay the s

suspicions and

ap_

prehensions of the Chinese, ~

who, as a

- a people, are naturally timid and to induce them

to report eases with greater

readiness, it was decided. towards the end of March, to permit them to remove

their sick to Canton under

Enclosure certain conditions, a

copy of which is enclosed, and this

privilege

was

shortly after.

wards

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