Hongkong, Jannaxy,6, 1911.
Dean Six,—The measures adopted in Hongkon; ow to the prevention of Plague consist in—
(1) The exclusion of rate from the houses by means of concreted ground surfaces, the prohibition of ceilings and of hollow walls and the protection of drain openings and ventilating openpgt by iron gratings; (2) The collection and bacteriological jon of all rate found desd—facilities for their collection are provided in the shape of s large number of small red tins containing a carbolic acid pectant, attached to lamy sts ted to pat all rats found or killed them, These tins are visited twice bes by rat-collectors who take all rats found in them to the Bacteriologist, and change the disinfectant in the tin not less than Jonce a week (3) The destruction of rate by rat mm_and rat-traps, special efforts it direction being made just before the onset of the regaler Plague season} nal from
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