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The addresses of these Dispensaries are as follows :-

205 Queen's Road East.

$42 First Street.

153 Reclamation Street, Yaumati.

54 Des Voeux Road, Hunghom.

Kowloon City.

Only one District Hospital has up to the present been opened in the City, and this is at 63 and 65 Third Street, while there is a Matshed Hospital near Kowloon City for the treat- inent of Plague cases from that District.

Eighteen persons were treated in the Third Street Hospital during 1906, and 33 patients were treated in the Kowloon City Hospital in the same year.

Permits are issued on application, for the removal of the sick and of dead bodies to Canton.

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SANITARY BOARD OFFICE,

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SIR,-This is to give you notice that your premises must be thoroughly cleansed on ....in default of your doing so the Sanitary Board will themselves undertake such cleansing unless such premises, be found to be already in a cleanly condition.

All rooms, cubicles, partitions, staircases, kitchens, yards, private lanes, floors, bedboards, furniture and other woodwork must be thoroughly cleansed.

The Inspector of your District will issue soft soap for the cleansing of yards, kitchens, rooms and woodwork.

As fleas are believed to be a means of conveying plague to human beings from infected rats, it is the wish of the Board to exterminate them if possible and with this object in view, you are asked to let your clothes and bedding be disinfected. All that is necessary is for you to let the Sanitary Officers have your clothes and in a few hours time they will cleared from all these pests and returned to you. The disinfecting process will not injure the cloth- ing and the greatest care will be taken that the different articles are returned to their proper owners. Any complaint concerning the way in which this is done should be made in writing to the Secretary of the Sanitary Board, and compensation will be given for any damaged articles.

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Please note that you are not in any way compelled to hand over your clothes and bed- ding to be disinfected but the Board earnestly hopes you will do so, and that you will co-operate with the Board in the work of general cleansing as far as possible.

I have, etc.,

Secretary.