The Government-General of Korea has sent instractions to all Custom Houses in Korea setting forth the preventive measures to be taken against black plague. All imports of soya bean, Ttdian corm, and other food staff, from Mancharia is prohibited for the time ing. jan. 26.
A very important testing of the foreiga community took place this afternoon at the Beach Hotel, beginning at 6 o'clock, Neurly every mie member was present, over sixty pardons in afl.
The Consul for Germany wis itvitel to take the chair and he called upon Dr. Gulowsen to make " statement regarding the ptesetit situation and to fter suggestions for préventitg the bread of the plague, Mr. Unwin, Commissioner of Ciistoms, remarked that the plsgae was actually here and that ing to the official report, made by the Tadtii, the ouiber of deaths Was tilty slods the 12th instant. Several cases were reported in the immediate vicinity of the settlement. He thought that the Txotai was doing all he could with the metas The policemen were structed to report to bim Qaily the new cases and the houses where dich cases were found were disinfected atid closed up. The drains were cleaned daily and s dumber of medic mid (Chigesr) distribateéd over the district to administer medicine and to bute suspected casels conveyed to thie Tol tion Hospital; two isolation hospitals were open, one at the West attd dhe at the Esst Beach; and a" qabrébtiae station bad been opened at the Bluff. Moreover, a foreign doctor mtd Coinece doctor hed Been telegraphed for from Shanghai. Three houses had been cloved; and a proclamation warning the people hud been posted up.
The Commissioner felt that the situation was a grave one atid that it tas Impossible to get the Chinese t6 follow the instructions given. for, a& soon one was taken ill, his friends would immediately carry him off to the country to avoid his being thken to the Isolation Hospital. The great teed was for money to enatte them to pat into effect certain precautionary mexsares.
Dr. Gtlowsen then made some xtggestions of a practical nature. The first was to send away our wives and children; the second, to close the foreiga area, commonly styled the sixth coction, to the Chinese; the third, that foreign volunteers should be put in charge of districts for the purpose of wetihg that suspected dises wert' taken to the Isolation Hospitals, and that infected bouses be disinfected and closed; the fourth, that each hotsdttolder should be supplied with a large stock of provieidns to avoid frequent intercourse with the street, abd if possible to have a market ander proper control within the settlement; the fifth that many of the neshes should be withdrawn from use, end those in ase should be daily inspected and disinfected; the sixth, that serviat going to the tnarket should wear traske and gloves; seventh, that servirats apon their retarn from market a have their shoes disinfected and their hands and faces washed, Mr. Lyman outlined what had been done by the International Coumfitter, and said that sd of over $4,000 had been collected, of this amount tle Commissioner Had cotrtributed $1,000. He thought that the Central Government
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