Memorandum from JOHN M'GOWN,
C. O.
23734
Engraver, Lithographer, Printer, and Stationer,
To the Right Honorable the Lord Chamberlain
Kensington Palace
Glasgow,
30th Oct 96
16/11/1896
A matter of that &
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discussion wist
About a year ago or last
a time he underwent...
Recently my late employer of Chinese Labor, a foreman of mine - from Shanghai-
About the Bubonic Plague (Bubonic Lepra?) and I have often thought I ought to let you know its cause - but refrained from doing so.
You have every detail at your finger ends. (I can't mention his name for obvious reasons.)
(He said "The employment of labor is different out here; you deal with a gang- every one of whom is under his power; them any slave. a law which drives out the coolie & his gang - walk out of the house without a word passing your lips; of the lodging houses they lodge in).
It is in these Lodging houses, according to your informant, the plague originates. It appears to be impossible to eradicate it.
The condition of affairs in the Tenements in which these laborers live is very deplorable. "Imagine rows of your tenement single Apartment houses myriads divided...
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emorandum from JOHN M'GOWN,
C. O.
23734
Engraver, Lithographer, Printer, and Stationer,
J
the Right Hamble Ambh
Dr Chamberlan
KAPNAKULA
Glasgow,
3130th
R18 NOV 96
16/11/1896
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