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There are 3 Dispensaries in Victoria and one each in Yaunati, Hunghom and Kowloon -City.

Only one District Plague Hospital has up to the present been opened in the City of Victoria, one at Kowloon and a third in Kowloon City.

Nine persons were treated in the Hospital in Victoria during 1907, and 33 in the Kowloon City Hospital.

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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 the premises are found to be already in a cleanly .condition.

All rooms, cubicles, partitions, staircases, kitchens, yards, private lanes, floors, bed- boards, 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 the means of conveying Plague to human beings from infected rats, it is the wish of the Board to exterminate them as far as 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 be cleared of 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.

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.

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