CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4] — Page 120

شهر دیا

No.

27

Government House,

dong long.

24th January, 1901.

117

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By Book Post

Rel

K

30 FEB OF

sir,

I have the honour to transmit to you

herewith 12 copies of the Report on the Epidemic of -

Bubonic Plague in Hongkong in the year 1900.

2.

It will be observed that while' the

number of deatha was almost the same as in 1896 the per-

centage of mortality is higher being 96,5 am against #9.5

in 1896

3,

Of the 428 houses infected cases oc-

curred last year in 54 or 12.58 % and the mmber of in-

fected houses noted as being in a bad sanitary condition

is 29 or

Ada

4.

Kore than one case occurred in 43

houses or 10 %.

5.

Having regard to the large proportion

of houses in which only: a single: case has been recorded

both last year and in 1899 it has occurred to me that

the centres of infection may be found in the rice go-

downs and other places where large numbers work.

last year plague broke out among the

coclise working in the godowns of the Kowloon Wharf ---

Company who had made excellent provisions for housing

their co lies and who prevented them from crossing the

harbour to Victoria. The plague appeared after the s

storing

EIGHT, FONOURABLE -

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,

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