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The Warders were sent on the first incidence
of symptoms to the Civil Hospital, and several of the prisoners I
sent, without waiting for final diagnosis, to my observation .wards
at the Tung.Wah Hospital on the first suspicion of Flague, in
order to get suspicious .cases out of the Gaol without delay. All
the prismers sent out as suspected plague proved to be cases of
Plague. Probably the early .commencement of treatment accounts for
the fact that so many are now out of danger.
I have given instructions that all oakum
picked during the past month that may have been handled by any of
the plague casez shall be sent to the Disinfecting Station for
Steam disinfection before being issued from the Gaol.
His Excellency's prompt action in dealing
with the overcrowding, when the risks.conséqueat on it become
apparent on 30th. May permits more careful isolation now of persons
sent in to prison for offences connected with the reaal of dead
bodies. I may mention that for spae.weeks back (1 have given
written instructions in each case thus sent to prison that the
temperature shall be taken daily for a week after imprisonment.
None of these."contacts" have .contracted the disease while in
prison, though, as I have pointed out, one of them may have con-
veyed the infection to .case 7, Ip H1.
I have etc.,
(Sd.) J. C. Thomson.
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