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(2) According to Chinese ideas it is something more than bad
manners to allude to any illness or misfortune: (3) The Plague Hospital at Kennedy Town is at the extreme Western point of the
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City, which extends Eastward for 4 miles. Down to 1901 the
Ambulances were cots slung on poles and carried by two coolies,
and the patients arrived at the Hospital in many cases already
moribund from exhaustion and despair, for few left the Hospital
alive. In that year 1 directed that wheeled Ambulances of improved
pattern with pneumatic tyres should be provided. The Hospital and
its managements are excellent, but the old feeling remains and
the poorer people removed to Kennedy Town regard the removal as
a prelude to death. Two years ago it was proposed to the
Sanitary Board that small local Hospitals should be established
but the proposal did not then commend itself to them. Two months
ago the Sanitary Board and Medical Officers consented to exclude
from the ordinary operations of the Sanitary Staff and to hand
over to me a small district comprising about 6,000 persons,
selected as the worst in the City. In this district I have
adopted a system that commends itself to the people and has
secured their co-operation. At the conclusion of the epidemic
I shall inform you of the results, which has been so satisfactory
that the Principal Civil Medical Officer and the Acting Medical
Officer of Health who have watched the experiment with anxious
sympathy, desire to see the principle extended, and the Sanitary Board has adopted a resolution accepting the desirability of
local Hospitals.
7.
The discovery that fowls and game have been
discovered to be infected with plague bacilli both in the
Central and Western Markets affords strong grounds for the as- sumption in the fifth sub-section of paragraph 5. of Professor
Simpson's
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