At the fortnightly - meeting of the Sanitary Board, held on the 27th inst., there was nothing of interest to engage the members except a translation of a report on the plague-epidemic in Macao in 1895 by Dr. J.-Gomez da Silva, Principal Medical Officer of that colony. The pith of this report seems to be that the number of burials was at the time named over double the usual average, and it was: assumed that: the plague been epidemic. The Chinese were allowed be treated by their own quacks, but they were compelled to bury. their dead outside Macao, -a wise provision. The precautions taken were effected: without unnecessarily alarming the population, and the disease seems to have been allowed' to burn itself out.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.