CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9] — Page 34

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work is still in progress. The total number of pied Chinese houses in the is 6,350, but as a number

city

of these are

occupied by well -to-do Chinese, no interference

on the part of the Sanitary

It is.

| Board is necessary.

hoped that before long every house in the City requiring attention will have been

cleansed and limewashed.

13.

Having described in

detail the sanitary

measures mea

which

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which have been taken to cope with the disease, I now proceed to deal with the subject from

a medical point of view.

I am informed by

14.

D. Lowson that the type of the

disease is identically the same

as in 1894, a full description

of which is

given

in

that

officer's report, forwarded in ` my despatch N.122 of 16th April, 1895.

I enclose a return

Enclosur 2. 15.

showing the number of cases and deaths to date and the

number