eld their usual meeting on the 15th inst, when the new Secretary, Mr. ©. W. Dugga was formally installed. The business before the Board was of little general interest, but Mr. Osborne, in view of the fact that there hiad been eight cases of plague during the previous week, proposed that a return showing the number of tenements in each health district and the number limewashed and sed up to date should be furnished to the Board every fortnight. The resolution was carried. Every effort will be made to prevent this disease becoming epidemic, Meantime the ports to the South have inken the alarm and lave declared Hongkong to be infected.
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