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peninsula of two storied houses fronting streets 50 feet wide and inhabited by the best paid working men of the Chinese Community, the workmen of the Hampoa Dock Company. I was so struck by this fact in apparent opposition to the various theories that I requested Major General Gascoigne to permit an officer of the Royal Army Medical Corps to make an independent report upon it, placing the services of a Sanitary officer and an officer of the Public Works Department at his disposal, I attach his report.
*The very high percentage of Mortality here has also engaged my attention. In the Epidemic of 18 it was 91.12%,
Molozu re
7 30/5/01 45/6/01.
In 1898.......................... 89.45%
In 1899.......................... 96.10%
In 1900.......................... 94.56%
In 1901.......................... 94.86%
This percentage is higher than that reported from other places and is generally supposed to be much higher than at Macao or Canton, though there are no figures available for the latter and at Macao local conditions render statistics on this subject unreliable as plague patients go across the harbour to the Chinese hospital in great numbers. I have visited the plague hospital on rare occasions and thoroughly inspected
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peninsula of two storied houses fronting streets 50feet
wide and inhabited by the best paid working men of the
Chinese Community, the workmen of the hampoa Dock
Company. I was so struck by this fact in apparent
opposition to the various theories that I requested
Major General Gascoigne to permit an officer of the
Royal Army Medical Corps to make an independent report
upon it, placing the services of a Banitary officer
and an officer of the Public Works Department at his
disposal, I attach his report.
*The very high percentage of Mortality here has
also engaged my attention. In the Ipidemic of 18 it
was 91.12%,
Molozu re
7 30/5/0145/6/01.
In 1898.
89. 4546
In 1899.......................... 96.10%
· In 1900.............
!
In 1901..**
94.56%
94.86%
This percentage is higher than' that reported from other
places and is generally supposed to be much higher
than at Macao or Canton,though there are no figures
available for the latter and at Macao local conditions
render statistics on this subject unreliable as plague
patients go across the harbour to the Chinese hospital
in great numbers. I have visited the plague hospital
on tare occasions and thoroughly inspected
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