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TELEGRAMS.

(Reuters.)

The Duty on Toa.

LONDON, 15th May.

LATER.

The Strike in Melbourne. The strike in Melbourne is ended.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1903.

THE KWANGSI FAMINE.

The Sin Wan l'a publishes a telègram sent the other day by Governor Wang Chihchun of Kwangsi to Treaty Commissioner Lu at Shang. An intiuential deputation will wait on Mr. hai. The telegram says "Kwangsi has always Balfour and Mr. Ritchie to urge the remis-ben a poverty-stricken Province and when I sion of a portion of the duty on Tea instead dilapidated condition, robbers simply swarming arrived here, I found matters were in a most of the abolition of the corn duty.

the province, therefore it was difficult to decide where to begin operations. I had to work Mr. Balfour has declined to modify the hard to recruit troops and acquire funds and duty on Tea,

for nine months I was daily in the midst of battles. Fortunately now the interior and the districts on the borders have been pacified and 1 have memorialized the Throne to this effect. At present on one hand I am keeping the troops to capture the remaining robbers (rebels), while on the other band I am instructing the subprefects and Magistrates to inaugurate militing within their jurisdictions for self-protec- tion, Although I had a most difficult and laborious task I am glad that it has borne some good results, but the different newspapers intentionally publish false reports to deceive the people which I have no intention of There is a marked recrudescence of anti-publicly denying but as they might wrong you, semitism in Russia, where the old expulsion 1 respectfully send this message."

The Near East. The Bulgarian Government has sent a note to its representatives abroad requesting them to call the attention of the Powers to the excesses of the Turks in Macedonia, which render useless the efforts made by Bulgaria to restrain the Macedonians.

Russia,

ordinances are being enforced. Thirty-seven thousand Jews have been forced to quit Kieff, and a reign of terror exists.

The Education Bill.

16th May.

A compromise has been cftcted in the Education Bill and the Government has agreed to an arrangement reducing the num ber of Borough Councillors, and giving the County Council an absolute majority.

Mr. Chamberlain on Free. Trade. Mr. Chamberlain speaking at Birmingham said he strongly condemned the interpreta tion of Free Trade, which prevented Britain from favouring her Colonics or from retalia- ting against countries penalizing the colonies for favouring Britain; the country ought not to be bound by any technical definition of Free Trade so far as Tellow-subjects were

BISHOP OF HONGKONG

ADRIFT ON A PADDY FIELD.

The following interesting item is from the; Fanchow Daily Echo of 9th inst.;—

THE SUGAR CONVENTION.

BRITISH SUGAR EXPORTS TO THE FAR EAST. Diplomatic corresponderice upon the ratifica tion of the Brussels Bugar Bounties Convention was issued as a Parliamentary paper on 7th ult. It is concerned with the position of the British self-governing colonies. The British Govern- ment instructed their Ambassadors to explain to the other Powers that they would not consent

Bast Adit-An addition of 56 ft. has brought this up to 340 ft. It shows nothing new.

Do, Drive North-This end has been driven 56 ft, making a total of 130 it. The lode is 49 in. wide and is worth 3 dwt, per ton. It now contains more iron-stained matter, and some good pannings have been got from it during the month. Alogether it looks most promising.

Do, Drive South-An advance for the to be bound to penalise bounty-fed sugar month of 86 ft., makes this total 154 ft. The imported into England from any of the self-end is getting into shallow ground and, as the governing colonies, neither would they accept | persistence of the lode has now been thorough- any reference of the question to the permanently proved, it is not necessary to proceed fuith- Commission to be established under the Con- er with this drive. The lode for this distance vention. A paper has also been issued giving has averaged as in, wide with a value of a a list of countries engaged in the production | little quer i dwt. of sugar, together with value of exports from the United Kingdom to each of the said countries. The following figures relate to countries in the Far East, The figures show the value of total exports from the United Kingdom :-

1ano.

1601.

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Comturies. 1947-

800. Dutch East £ £ £ £

ladie...... 29,355 1,150,519 9,411,940 3,881,60; 3,363,765 French Indo- China ..... Siam....... Philippine

Istals.... 474.333 210,510 438.635 1,200,156 913,818

73+596 76,874 91,887 68,979 106,966 154.252 325,440 196,411 103,271 757,275

COMMERCIAL.

TO-DAY'S INTELLIGENCE.

The only item of interest to report is the put-; ting through, locally, of a large lot of Indo- Chinas, reported to be a thousand shares, at $104, $104.50, and $105. Shanghai is said to be buying to cover "shorts" The closing quota- lion is Sing to $105 50, buyers. If shares offer $105 may be paid. Nothing doing in other stocks

RAUB REPORT.

The general manager's report to 15th April, is as follows:

After a day of intense depression, Thursday night at and in the neighbourhood of Pagoda Anchorage at any rate, turned to be one of the stormiest and roughest in our recollection. Commencing at 1.30 p.m. with a squall and thunder storm, a gale from the N.E. followed. within sight of the s.s. Haflan at about 6 p.m. Two Ningpo junks laden with rice turned turtle and at a later hour a vast quantity of wreckage was seen floating down the river. Those leaving the Anchorage for Fonchow in the two Gentlemen, beg to submit my monthly finest steam-launches on the river, one starting report on your miring and milling operations. at 6.30 and the other at 8.30 met with terrible The mine measurements, prepared by the experiences, while the Bishop of Victoria sail-mine manaver,show a lotal of 503' for the period

Martin, was driven on to a paddy field and sinking, 291 ft, driving, and 171 ft. cross- found himself on the fall of the tide thirty cutting, as against a total of 551 ft. for the yards from the bank; and here he spent the previous 4 weeks. night, to be taken off in the early morning by a small sampan in which he continued his journey to Foochow. It is thought that the storm must have been a sort of local cyclone as the wind at Foochow it 10 p.m. was blowing from the west. In consequence of this storm neither cargo nor native passengers could be got down to the Fallas and the departure of the steamer was delayed for 24 hours.

The

Eastern Prospect.-After extending this to 86 ft, making the distance driven for the month 22 ft the value of the stone was s unsatisfactory that driving was stopped, and crosscuts were started East and West. former has been driven 1 ft., and the latter 2 ft., but nothing of note has yet been met with.

Stopes -We are winning stone from the following stapes :--

Above the 240 Level North: 3 stopes; lode averages 63 in, and 2) dwt.

Above the 240 Level South: 2 stopes; toile averages 34 in and 2j, dwt.

Interme 'iate North: stopes; lode averages 84 in. and 5 dwt.

Intermediate South: 1 stope; lode averages Go in and 4 dwt,

14 North stope: lode averages 70 in. and 5 dwt.

At the 340 Level from the drives and backs of the drives broken for timbering, above 150 tons of quartz have been raised. The Inde averses 48 in wide, and from panaing tests is worth fully 6 dwt, per ton free milling.

General :-Winding and pumping plant have heen overhauled where necessary and, are working satisfactorily.

Bukit Hitam 260 Level-Drive South-This has been advanced 9 ft., making a total of 244 ft. The lode continues small and of low grade, avenging only 41 in. în width and † dwt, in worth,

Do, No. 1 Winze.-Here 31 ft. have

The lade matter averages 15 in. wide and has a value of about tå det. Its appearance so far is not encouraging.

concerned. We should not hesitate to re- ing up the river in a house-boat with Rev. 1. (4 weeks), under review, made up of 41 t been scnk, making the depth to date 48 ft.

taliate whenever the interests between the colonists and ourscives were threatened by

others.

LATER.

Mr. Chamberlain's speech is regarded as marking an epoch in the fiscal relations of the Mother Country and the Colonies and as raising the issue whether a wide-world free trade accords with the country's best interests.

Morocco.

The Moorish troops sent to Tetuan in an English steamer have entered the town un- opposed; the rebels are demoralized by -heavy-lasses-and-the-garrison-now-assumes

the offensive.

(N. C. Daily News.) Becuring the Nile.

MORRISON HILL GAP.

It will be remembered that at a meeting of the Sanitary Board held on the 18th February last, a communication was read from Mr. Ho Tung as owner of certain properties situate at Morrison Hill Gap. It was stated in the letter London, 14th May.

that a number of tenants, occupying a block of It is stated at Brussels that an arrangement some filtees European dwelling houses, com- has been concluded whereby Great Britain plained of the unhealthiness of the locality on will reoccupy the Lado enclave:

account of the prevalence of fever of a malig- King Leopold renounces all claint to nant type owing to the presence in that neigh- acquire any land on the banks of the Nile,bourhood of breeding places wherein the and receives as compensation a part of the apopheles mosquitoes abound. In the opinion Babr el Ghazal,

of a medical gentleman the main contributing The Nile this, becomes wholly Anglo- factor in rendering the houses unhealthy was Egyptian.

the presence at the rear of the Sikh temple of n marsh and a nullah situated to the south of the building. The close proximity of such breed- ing places naturally led to the presence of mos- quitoes in considerable number.

OVERCROWDING IN THE

COLONY.

MEETING OF PROPERTY OWNERS.

At three o'clock this afternoon a mecting of owners of property in the Colony was held in the Sanitary Board offices for the purpose of considering the sections of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903 (Public Health and Buildings), relating to overcrowding and the requirements to be observed with regard to enbicles or rooms in

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In an investigation that had been made it was found that the servants suffered severely

from fever before the Europeans were attacked.

abul directly on to the nullah. It must be noted that the servants' quarters

MINES.

Bukit Koman, Main Shaft :-The station sets

at the in Level, the dividing timbers from the zin in the 34 Level, and the cage road down to the last named have heen completed: The flat sheets and tram lines have been laid in the bottom level, and the cages

and trucks are now in constant operation. Below the 140 Level special sets have been

put in to cope with any possible requirement in the future, and the shaft bas been closely timb red. This work his b ́en forced, so that sinking could be resumed. To this laster, an addition_offi-las-been-male-so-that-the- shaft is now 22 ft. in all below the 340 Level. The water has increased, and will hamper the work somewhat, until the extra pump shail have been fixed. preparations for which are well in hand.

340 Level. Drive North-This has been advanced 15 ft. making as ft. in all. The lode 42 in. wide and worth 3 dwt; the value is not so high as Inst month, the lode is greatly improved in appearance.

Do. Drive South-Here 18 ft. have been added, bringing the total ta 62 it, south of the shaft. The lade, 56 in. wide and worth 6 dwt.

per ton, is a fine body of stone and promises

well.

Work in the above two drives has been slightly interrupted by that in connection with the station.

240 Level North, No. 1 Winze. To this has been added 1 ft, making the total depth 64 ft, Owing to the pecurrence of an accident and to the superstitions of the Chinese miners, opera- | tions here have had to he temporarily suspended.

240 Level South, No. 2 Winze.This has been sunk a further 6 ft. bringing the total depth to co ft. This being deep enough for connecting with the 340 Level when it shall have been so far advanced, the work has been stopped. For the whole depth sunk | through the lode has averaged 48 in. wide and has been chiefly low grade, but with decided improvement at the bottons

Dr. Clark, who visited the neighbourhood. advised the Board to recommend the Govers, ment to surface the bed of the mullah, and fo cut down the brushwood on the south side of existing buildings. The two sections of the the nullah (below the Mahomedan Cemetery) Ordinance are numbered 46 and 154, respec and to fill up the small swamp at the back of tively. The meeting was closed to the Press.

the Sikh temple. These recommendations, it may be noted, are generally those carried out THE NEW VICEROY.

in respect of any district in which the malarial mosquito pest is known to exist, Pursuant to The Sin Wan Pao states that Tsen Chuah-

those recommendations and to the Govern- suen, late Viceroy of Szechues and Viceroy ment's determination to rid the Colony of 140′ Level North, Drive North off No. 2`| Designate of Kwangtung and Kwangai is a the principal factor in the causation of malaria, Winze-An advance of 6 fœmakes this total native of the latter province, therefore his ap we now learn that the Mahomedan Cemetery 33 ft. The lode averages 15′′ wide and is pointment to the Viceroyalty of the. Two authorities, of the request of the Sanitary

worth about i dwt. It has improved since last Kwangs is a special one and has few prece. Board, have cleared away the brushwood reported on, dents. After the issue of the Imperial Edict from the cemetery. The training of the Winze-This has been prolonged sz ft., and 140 Level South, Drive South off No. 1 appointing him, the Grand Councillors further nullah in the locality cannot yet be undertaken, at the especial request of the Empress-Dowager but remedial steps in connection with this the drive on the hanging wall branch of the telegraphed to the said Viceroy stating that the pollab have been taken by the mosquito gang.

lode now totals 14 ft. The loḍe in 48 in. wide military operations in Kwangs are in a pre- It is believed that, after these measures which and worth about i dwt., which is a failing off. carious condition while robbers fill the pro- are now completed, the bad reputation attached Dn., Drive South off No. 3. Winze-To vince and some have even appeared in Wei- to Morrison Hill as a fever-stricken district this has been added 25 ft., making a total of 37 chou and Chinchas of Kwangtung and as he will be removed, and residence in the locality ft. The lode is jó in, wide and is worth about (the Viceroy) is a native of Kangal he must may again be taken up without apprehension..

24 det, indicating an improvement.

Do., Cross-cat East into Koman Hi- bave a good knowledge of all the conditions in that Province and will consequently be able to

This now reaches 274 ft., making 31 ft, adv. accomplish good results. He should further

ance for the month. The ground has become with the cooperation of the Governor of Yun.

much softer, and is letting out a little water. Ban, Kasichow and Kwangui exterminate the

Do., Drives from East Crosscot. The lode robbers. Again the civil and military systems Native reports to hand stats that for the last referred to last month has been driven on for of the Two Kwanga have been most corrupt, few days the villages along the West River 15 ft. south and 9 ft. north. ́ ́It averages 33 in ho should do his best to cause a total reorgani- have been visited by a plague of locusts and wide and gives 'to 3 dwt. The quane is very zation, etc. Viceroy Teen replied by telegraph fleas, which has done a great deal of harm to much more mixed with slate than is usual with that as he had not personally been to the scene mulberry and other crops. It is feared that the these lodes. of the disorders he would not like to make rash damage cominitted will be a death-blow to the

Tunnel in Koman Hill Extension Eastwards statements but naked that he be allowed to pro silk cocoons. The presence of the fleas at this This has been further prolonged so ft., make ceed to his new post at once and to take ten time of the year is also very curious. Victirasing a total of 333 ft. East of the main lode, abla officials of Szechuen to suist him in the attacked state that after a bite, the part of the with no change. Between this point and the south. He further asked to be allowed to bor-flesh becomes very irritated, and a large lamp end of the East Adit there is yet 95 ft. to be row TIL 20,000 from Brechuen and to have a rises on the skip while the person bitten feel driven to prove the whole of Koman Hill in temporary wooden seal made to be used en languid and is very thirsty. The Chinese this part. This should be accomplished early "route" It is said that the Goverment has con ascribe the presence of the fear townow phase to the coming month,

sented to the above application and that he of the "black death," or plague, for they state will arrive at Kwanglung about the middle of that about seven years ago, the same type of the present month.

fleas was the forerunner of the plague.

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The.. Drives over back of Level.-Of this work 18ft has been done to leave an arch of ground over the back of the level above the No. 1 winze. The lade exposed averages 8 in. wide and is worth about 3 dwi.

winze-The

Da.. Crosscut to Na. obiect of this was to connect the stope in the

back of this level with the No. 1 winze from

the 160, so as to get waste rock through into the stope for filling: 5 ft. served to connect these points.

Stopes. The following stopes are in opera- rion :

Ahave 260 South: 2 stopes; lode 36 in wide, value ti dwt,

Above 160 North: 1 stope; lode 39 in. wide, value aj dwt,

Above 160 South; I stope ; lode 45 in. wide, value 4 dwt,

General-One boiler has been under repairs the tubes leaking badly ; the second boiler was brought into use without any cessation of work. The engine and pomp are running much as usual,

• Milling Return for 4 weeks to 25th April, 1903. Stamps working.-40.

days for whole mill due almost entirely to Period of works.-28 days. less lost time z.81

repairs and cleaning plates.

REPORT ON THE CAUSES AND CONTINUANCE OF PLAGUE

IN HONGKONG. {Continued.)

6. Apart, however, from the exposure of the Colony to re-infection from the mainland of China, plague is now endemic in Hongkong.

Since 1898, no two consecutive months have been free of plague, and there has been a yearly recrudescence in the spring which gra dually increases in epidemic force until it reaches its climax in June or July, and then rapidly decreases

rats, susceptible to plague, and particularly so when fed with plague material.

The Chinese have generally maintained that these animals and birds suffer from plague, and evidently their observation, as in many other instances, is correct, though their theories as to causation need not be considered.

That these animals of the farmyard and of the backyard of domestic dwellings are affected

with plague is an important fact bearing on the continuance of plague in some localities where these animals are numerous; while the fact that they take plague by feeding has to be This endemicity owes its maintenance to:

borne in mind in any future consideration of (a) Infection among rals, probably often the different modes by which the virus of plague connected with infectious material gains an entrance into the human body? The view that plague is mainly acquired by inocul in rat runs or in houses, the virusation will probably have to be modified in the of which has not been destroyed; (4) Retention of infection in houses which of infected food or drink, in whatever way that light of these experiments, and the swallowing

are rat-ridden, or which have es-

caped disinfection because of the plague patient who occupied the house having been taken to China or dumped when dead or dying in the street, or which could not be efficiently disinfected, because of the darkness and insanitary condition of the infected house; and

food or drink may become infected, will have to take a more important place in the recog rised modes by which the virus infects the body. More attention than has hitherto been considered necessary will require to be paid by the local authority in times of plague epidemics to the examination and inspection of the food supply, and by private individuals to the cook- (4) Infected clothing of people who haveing and storage of food. It is highly probable been ill or who have died of plague rats is due, in a large measure as least, to their that the dissemination of the disease by plague and whose effects have been remov. ed to some other house without disinfection,

On the other hand, the recurrent outbreaks and epidemic prevalence are favoured by:

(a.) The seasonal heat and moisture of the

spring and arly summer. (8.) The movement from place to place of

infected rats and persons. (c) The geoeral insanitary condition of the interior of a great number of the Chinese tenement houses, the rooms- of which are dark, damp, badly ven- tilated, and grossly overcrowded. (d.) The high proportion of the population

which is poor, living in tenement houses, and whose habits, dwellings, persons, and mode of preparation and storage of food are not at alt cleanly; who at the same time are not permanent residents, and whose susceptibilities to endemic diseases are accordingly greater than those of a more residential population New comers are specially prone to plague when freshly exposed to in fection in insanitary houses.

7. The social scale and floating nature of the population, like the seasons, are not alterable. They are mentioned as subsidiary influences because their recognition as agents fostering an epidemic is not without its uses, inasmuch as it draws attention to the special localities and classes of population most likely to be a tacked, to the movements of these classes, and to the time to prepare for an outbreak,

8. As in Capetown, so it has proved in Hong -kong-that-nearly always there is an infection of the locality by infected rats before cases of plague occur among human beings, and it was by the organization of a daily bacteriological examination of the rats collected in different parts of the town and subsequently taking prompt action thereon whenever infection was found, that some of the worst localities were kept comparatively free of plague. The prac. tice thus instituted was not to wait for plague to occur in human beings but to take action in advance and deal with the precursors of plague, The circumstances which have contributed to the erection of insanitary houses are ex- the Government of Hongkong, and a more plained in the preliminary reports submitted to

detailed description of the defective mode of construction is given in the conjoint report by Mr. Osbert Chadwick, C.M.G., and myself. Mr. Chadwick was commissioned at the same time as I, to inquire into the sanitary condition of the Colony, more particularly with reference to the water supply and drainage, and during his stay in the Colony we worked together on the Mercury Loss.-273lb. per 100 T.. milled-diff.rent sanitary problems. The insanitary *.58 oz. per oz. bullion.

and overcrowded condition of the Chinese tene ment bouses is due partly to the limited aren of building land which was available in the early days of Hongkong, and partly to the detective mode of construction of the houses and the pernicious subdivision of the rooms into separate dwelling houses for separate families without reference to the free access of light and fresh air.

Oremilled B. Koman 2,540) tons

B. Hitam 82 Total 3,912 T. Mill duty.-2.9 tont p. stamp per 24 hours. Amalram Yield -2,158 oz. giving 732-5 oz. melted gold, 33 94%

Bullion Vield.-5 org det, per ton milled 72.70% contents.

Concentrates saved —Blanketings. 26 tons

(89% weight), assay 19.71 dwt-175 dwt.per ton milled. Buddlings. Ea tons (.3% of weight), assay 9.07 dwt-254 dwt. per ton milled. Total 3.69% weight='429 dwt, per ton milled 6 21% of contents,

Tailings assays 1.51 dw1.454 dwt, per ton milled-21.08% of total contents. *

Estimated cost for 4 weeks ending 25th April, 1903,

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The Colony of Hongkong was not always the size which it is to-day. At first there was ooly the Island of Hongkong on which the City of Victoria was built. Later a small strip 4394.82 13161.95 of the mainland on the opposite or Kowloon 1232.98 side of the harbour was acquired, and it is only 1423.50

within the last four years that the boundary 502.72 223.98 2150.30 has been pushed back and extended inland so as to include an area of land some 20 miles $21,871.09 broad. The conformation of the site on which the City of Victoria stands, with its rapid rise of land near the sea-shore up to a height of some 1700 feet, led in the early days to the erection of houses-on the small strip of land

Cost per ton-57.48m3 14 dwt.

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infecting food which has been lying about or to which they have gained access.

There is a twofold reason for keeping food covered and the house clean. One is in order that rats, among which some may be infected, shall not be attracted; the other is that the

food to be afterwards eaten by the household shall not be infected by plague-stricken rats. The experiments on monkeys show that rat plague is communicable to the higher animals by infected food or by inoculation with the virus, ar by contact, or even without contact,

with the infected rat.

what they show, it is instructive to note that in In connection with these experiments and

nearly every description of an endemic centre of plague the people live crowded together in dark and badly ventilated huts along with their cattle, pigs, and poultry.

1. The remedial measures advisable were considered and generally accepted In principle by the Government before I left the Colony. They are mostly concerned with the adminis- tration and with the legal powers necessary to combat the plague and improve the sanitary condition of the Colony, and consists in:-

(a) Notification of plague from China by

Weekly Bulletins from Consuls, &c (see Part IV., page 105).

(6) The inclusion of a special plague orga nization in the sanitary administra tion,

(c.) A re-organization of the sanitary de partment to include medical inspec tion of shipping and junks and the appointment of a Sanitary Commis. sioner for the Colony,

(d) The amendment and consolidation of

the Public Health Ordinances. Under the present condition of Hongkong and with Southern China Infected extensively with plague, it is almost hopeless to expect Hongkong to remain long entitaly free of plague, but it is not impossible, with a trained and special organization, to keep the disease in check and under control, so as to prevent it reaching those dimensions (which, alarm the population, prove disastrous to the Colony, and render Hongkong à source of anxiety to those who have trade relations with it.

11. The preventive measures against plague are of such a character that they cannot be effectively carried out by the ordinary sanitary staff employed for conservancy and inspection of nuitances. The campaign against rate, invalving, the preparation and distribution of » poison or of Danysz bacillus; the bacteriolo gical examinations of rats to discover which are infected and the house or street from which the infected are brought; the bacteriological examination of dead bodies; the rendering of old, dilapidated, and rat-ridden houses rat- proof; the seeing that ships have proper ap pliances fixed to them to prevent rats passing from ships to the shore or from the shore to ships; the destruction of rats on ships arriving from an infected port, and on certain ships leaving Hongkong; the discovery, and tracing out of cases of plague; the removal of plague patients to hospital; the inoculation of those who wish to be protected with Haffkine's plagua prophylactic; the provision of temporary sc commodation for the healthy fumates of a plague-infected house; the cleansing and dis infected clothing; the inspection of emigrants infection of a plague-infected house and plague, and the disinfection of their personal effects before leaving the post, and a series of other duties, require special officers and a special establishment for their execution.

The Government have already taken steps to organize a small but permanent staff trained in the work. For the medical duties endeavours were made in the early part of the year to secure near the harbour, and extending some distance from India night medical men of the class of up the bill, these houses being separated only assistant surgeons, but in consequence of the by narrow lanes and alleyways. At the time extensive prevalence of plague in India they when the population was small, and the houses could not be obtained. Later the services of only one or two stories in height, it is probable eight Japanese medical, men were secured on that no barm resulted from this practice. But the understanding that they were conversant when different conditions arose, and the houses with the English language. Unfortunately were heightened, and the rooms subdivided those sent proved, with one exception, to pos

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