The Archive · 1899

THE PLAGUE

is still with us, and is pretty well scattered. Yesterday there were 14 cases and 15 deaths reported. A resolution in favour of re-instituting search parties was passed yesterday at a meeting of the Sanitary Board. 'I think this would be a measure of doubtful expedience as it only serves to scare the Chinese without doing equivalent good. We seem very helpless in fice of this disease. A doctor confessed to me the other duy that the faculty knew very little more about it now than when it first appeared here.

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