appears now to be on the wane, the number of cases yesterday being seven and of deaths eight, s sensible diminution. I deeply regret, however, to have to record, among the deaths that of Miss Higgin (Sister Frances) one of the nurse sat the Government Civil Hospital. She contracted the disease when nursing one of the ward boys, who in his delirium spat upon her clothes and ince on the 20th inst. Sister Frances died yesterday from the worst form of the disease, plague pneumonia. She was buried at the Protestant Cemetery yesterday evening, the funeral being attended by a large number of sorrowing friends, including the Chief Justice, the Acting Colonial Secretary, Hon. F. H. May, Hon. Capt. Rumsey, ete.
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