The Archive · 1898

THE PLAGUE

This fell visitant is still with us though I d to say that the number of cases is decline. Yesterday the number of cases reported was only ten, but there were fifteen deaths, Any decrease, however, is welcome. Of the soldiers who were seized vith this disease, only one has fallen a victim; the rest are recovering. Another sailor belonging to the Bonaventure has some-recover. how contracted it, but it is hoped he will At Canton the deaths are, I hear, vers numerous, and the epidemic is worse hoti there and at Macao than it was in 1894,

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