There are passages in the following summarized trace lat it appears in seem to indicate that ey of plague Chinese officials are not above improving the occasion by adopting an abstractive attitude towards foreign medical methods. The Chapei populace, it is to be feared, will not derive much practical: assistance la dealing with a plague outbreak if they have nothing more definite to go apon than this proclamation.
The Taotai of Constabulary for the Province of Kiangse, Wang Joo-kai has issued a dispatch of instructions to the beads of the various sub-stations in Shanghai as follows "Ca November 8 I was in receipt of " communication from the Shanghai Taotsi Lia stating that on October 31 the British Consul-General addressed him, informing bim that reports by the Manicipal Coancil disclosed the fact that a corpse bad been discovered io Alabaster Road in which there was
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