grows worse, I regret to say, the cases having increased from seven to ten per diem, and they will probably go on increasing unless some heavy rains eome_ to wash the Colony clean from the impurities collected during the long dry season.
The disease is also bad in Macao, where the deaths for the week ended 29th ultimo numbered 32, and 50 for the week previous At Canton and in the neighbouring di tricts it is prevalent, and at Saichiu the deaths are numerous and coffins are vuuning short.
Tt has likewise appeared at Wuchow, where several deaths have occurred in the city and suburbs.
in Formosa the epidemic still exists, the number of new eases at Tainan between April 9th and 17th being 36.
At the Hongkong Sanitary Board on the 10th it was decided to recommend the Government to erect an observation station i buuthood of Laichikok in the Hinterland.
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