Hongkong has again been declared an infected port by the officials of sundry other ports of the East. As as the general pablic is advised, there does not appear to be much pnghe stout, but perhaps full statistics are not published weekly. The report of the health of the Colony for the year 1906 has, however, just been published in the Government Gazette of Jaly 12, and this gives a good deal of information fu regan to the ravages of the plague for tit year. It appears thut the plage Worse last year than it wae 1905; for whereas i thie Intter yenr the namber of victims was 304, in 1908 the number stnounted to 893. Te would thus appear that, etvihetindiy the constant foote of F and Sanitary authorities to grapple with the plague, ita virulente Fives and falls, apparently, according to the rising and falling thereof in the (ities on the mainland. 2F this ix true, tine huinitiating confession to make hope, however, that the energy put forth is not wasted, bat that we dre leat Keeping. things im hand, aid. improving upon what they were some years ago. One remarkable fact is that Europeans have more power of resistance either than the Chinese or the Raes of mixed blood that inhabit our sand. Pure-blooded Indians, too, ake able to fight against it more effectively then either of the classes mentioned above. Either there is something in the physique of these races which is wanting in the Chinese "and mixed, else the conditions under they live not only make thatn less likely to contract the disease, but enable them more successfully to fight it.
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