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·wards extended to the removal
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of corpses. Although this - concession has been avail- ed of only to the extent of the removal to Canton of ~
one
patient and four bodies, I am of opinion that the granting of it has tended to
calm the minds of the native population and to discourage the concealment of cases from ...the knowledge of the authorities.
9.
I am
glad also in
this connection to be able
to
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to state that although a good
many of the well-to-do Chinese have removed their
wives and families from the Colony, and although ~ the attendance at most of the schools has greatly -di- minished, there has been
no general exodus of the population such as occurred in 1894, and business has
so far not sufferred to any appreciable extent, except- perhaps from the imposition
of
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