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"that in their opinion there i9 canse for alarm at the
"present time.
"I am, Sir,
"Your obedient Servant,
"S. B. PROVIS,
"Secretary.
"The Clerk to the Sanitary Authority."
"PLAGUE MEMORANDUM.
"(1.) Administrative Considerations.
"Plague having for the space of nearly two centuries
"receded from Europe, has in recent years once more
"trended westward, and has now again appeared in
"Great Britain. Sanitary Authorities of England and
"Wales will therefore need to be on the alert to detect
"the presence of this disease in their districts, with a
"view to prevent its becoming epidemic among their
"populations.
"It is to be anticipated, from the behaviour thus far
"of the recent western extension of the disease, that
"plague will not readily fasten on that section of our
"population which is properly housed, cleanly, and
"generally, in a sanitary sense, well to do; that rather
"it will especially affect, if it obtains foothold in one
"and another district, insanitary areas, such as are
"peopled by the poorest class, and where overcrowding
"of persons in houses and dirt and squalor of dwellings
"and of inhabitants tend to prevail.