The shadow of that fell disease yclept the Plague always lies on the Colony, for it has now for several years recurred to vex and harry us, At the meeting of the Sanitary Board; hield on the 22nd inst., a debate, started by Mr. Dyer Ball, took "place as to the advisability of taking steps for the medical inspection of passengers from Canton in consequence of the occurrence in the neighbourhood of the city of a. few cases of the disease. Mr. May said he was in favour of doing all that was possible to keep the Plague out of the Colony, but he believed rgy and money employed in a medi-inspection of passengers might be better in attending to the sanitary condition of the place, as the inspection could not keep out infected persons, and he moved a resolution, which was adopted, recommending the Government to take steps to ascertain whether the plague was epidemic in Canton or its vicinity.
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