In replying to this letter, Dr. J. H. Jordan, Commissioner of Public Health, pointed out that the follow-ug work was in actual progress.—"About 1,150 corpses have already veen cremated in the Eastern District Where the work is proceeding steadily. "Though a house-to-house inspection is revealing further corses, it is hoped that this task will se completed some time during March, "In regard to the Western District, the labour of collecting corpses is uso proceeding at a reasonable speed, 4,000 having been cremated.
"The corpses of 757 animals have eeen destroyed on separate pyres and at a distance from the cremations.
"The area bounded by the Soochow Zreck, Lincoln Avenue and in the West by Rubicon Road, should be deared in a day or so. The other Portion of the Western area, bounded n the West by Rubicon Road, to the North by Lincoln Avenue, and to the South by Hungjao Road, has been partially cleared, and a final survey will take place as soon as the difficult ask of clearing the first-named area s completed On completion this will give a clear area of clean country of approximately three miles depth, to act as a protection zone to he Settlement, whereupon it is possible that a further area will be dealt with.
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