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maximum term of incubation has passed. Between 35 and 40 per centum of the cases reported are found "dumped", and, so far all
the efforts to prevent this removal of bodies to the streets have
failed. Two years ago One hundred men of the British Regiment were employed for some time to watch during the night and prevent
dumping. The proportion of bodies deposited was reduced, but in
no case was any person detected in depositing the body. A reward
of Fifty Dollars is now given to others than police for the
detection of any person engaged in depositing a dead body in the
streets, and there have been three or four cases in which the
reward has been earned besides some convictions at the suit of the
police. Cremation of dumped bodies has been suggested as a
deterrent on account of the repugnance of the Chinese Community
to its adoption, but I have rejected it, as adding new terrors to
death among the stricken unfortunates, generally strangers,
without any valid ground for the assumption that it would act as
a practical preventive, .It was recommended that a fine should be
levied on the street in which a dumped body was found. This be-
came known and the next day a body was found at the entrance to
the residence of the Medical Officer of the Government Civil
Hospital; a piece of grim humour that conveyed a hint. The
object of the dumping of bodies is to avoid disinfection by the
Sanitary Officers which, for reasons that may be good or other-
wise, is intensely irritating to the poorer Chinese, who complain
that in the process their property is injured or destroyed. To
meet this objection a system has been adopted of giving compen-
sation for injury done, but, so far, I cannot say that this has
prevented the undesirable practice. The causes why illness is not notified are threefold:- (1) The patient, generally a working
coolie says nothing until he is so ill that he can no longer work:
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