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cleansing processes which are now periodically carried on by the inhabitants themselves at a comparatively small cost to the Government, the Sanitary Department supplying the cleansing materials and carrying away the rubbish.

The cleansing operations in 1901-1902 cost $81,352.89 whereas in 1903-1904 they cost the Government less than $7,000.

It is difficult to dogmatise concerning the effects certain measures have produced in dealing with a disease like plague, but I am convinced that the marked diminution which has occurred in the number of plague cases during the years 1904, 1905 and 1906 is a direct result of these cleansing processes carried out voluntarily by the inhabitants themselves, the average annual number of cases during these three years being 542 as compared with an average of 1,212 cases for the years 1901-1903.

The increase in 1906, as compared with 1905, was I think due to the scarcity of water in the Spring of that year interfering with the cleansing operations.

In 1903 it was found that certain Sections of the new Ordinance were unworkable and an amended Ordinance was passed in December of that year appointing the Principal Civil...

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422 cleansing processes which are now periodically carried on by the inhabitants themselves at a comparatively small cost to the Government, the Sanitary Department supplying the cleansing materials and carrying away the rubbish. The cleansing operations in 1901-1902 cost $81,352.89 whereas in 1903-1904 they cost the Government less than $7,000. It is difficult to dogmatise concerning the effects certain measures have produced in dealing with a disease like plague, but I am convinced that the marked diminution which has occurred in the number of plague cases during the years 1904, 1905 and 1906 is a direct result of these cleansing processes carried out voluntarily by the inhabitants themselves, the average annual number of cases during these three years being 542 as compared with an average of 1,212 cases for the years 1901-1903. The increase in 1906, as compared with 1905, was I think due to the scarcity of water in the Spring of that year interfering with the cleansing operations. In 1903 it was found that certain Sections of the new Ordinance were unworkable and an amended Ordinance was passed in December of that year appointing the Principal Civil...
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[le botanoqooni yfi:sitosıg fołów beuasq naw (2021 to I .o!!)

redsere dovm even bus atnendosni FJIBM sild:¶ evolvang erte

Fotw nilaeb ni besanazoq y[swotvang noed bar farið anewog

samealb othehiqe qnijjainoo to abodzen (antbwoIDISVO

yɗ betteth glinottoang esw comanib¬0 ald?

Bolalobo

• 00%

sit to sondeiass erit tw obvband .T” his noaquia roasetor?

.dia to rest110 Isolbe sit bra afro oiIdn¶ To toĴOSTIM

.10 wal sexeoed eo montb40 sind nietta KISTONB

TA Heɛyn bus (AtIsed to resit?0 Isolbet nation sit) seras?

yana? -12 to Jaounan art de » ayseľ no gawa gaɗd noted 218ID

atnshizer seenidð fagtoring oốs to galtean a od bentafque,sxal?

Cemetxe debw grilasb anoldoga wen auoitav add to qnlusom odt

-Birmo) sit en midt moldnem I .05

antbworɔravo anioldus Nis

need aan nolēnstta sitti? ood tad. troqef nkarit ni`ysa stenola- .374.810

oris to moltereqo-os ont galtaline to sonatxoqui sɗð oð nsvin

arob paled Bow Jard [Is galbustarit twtok

vinell via 6001 to gatïqë anë ni bra beuntinoo litta auzaiz

erið driznat siaw sasht:40 st yde erfe sban aow tnomireqxe a1exsI?

cleansing processes which are now periodically carried on by the

inhabitants themselves at a comparatively small cost to the

Government, the Sanitary Department supplying the cleansing

materials and carrying away the rubbish.

The cleansing operations in 1901 1902

cost $81,352.89 whereas in 1903 1904 they cost the Government

less than $7,000.

It is difficult to dogmatise concerning the

effects certain measures have produced in dealing with a disease

like plague, but I am convinced that the marked diminution

opsudix which has occurred in the number of plague cases during the PA.

years 1904, 1905 and 1906 is a direct result of these cleansing

processes carried out voluntarily by the inhabitants themselves,

the average annual number of cases during these three years

being 542 as compared with an average of 1,212 cases for the

years 1901 1903.

The increase in 1906, as compared with 1905,

was I think due to the scarcity of water in the Spring of that

year interfering with the cleansing operations.

In 1903 it was found that certain Sections

.aeevod riadt yntanseio to Joetta boog

of the new Ordinance were unworkable and an amended Ordinance

ow Jnanineqxe eind to Jivaer IsotJORII A BÅ

ent al suenido ant to molteneqoos ant nistde of side nood aver

3niansefo

was passed in December of that year appointing the Principal

Civil

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