We have had a good number of cases of plague on several days during the wet weather, but it has never been anything but sporadic, and, spite of rumours and reports, the death rate has never risen above 10 to 12 per day, and has latd: declined to 3 per day. This is bad enough, but it is a wonder it is not worse owing to the reckless carelessness of the Chinese, They have not the smallest idea of attemptting to stay infection, Yet somehow they scramble through, and at Canton, where few precautions are ever taken, the disease is said to have practically almost died out again, I think we have seen the worst of it here also,
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