was bad in several large towns, but seems to have disappeared once more. It broke out after the second rice-planting after the rural population hed been unusually exposed to the vat poison. If the people could be persuaded to remove their vats from the roadside, and secondly to approach them only from the windward side, they might escape many a severe epidemic of the fell disease. is still rising in price and the exodus to the Straits Settlements continues. It is feared
winter. there will be much suffering this coming
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