THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH OCTOBER, 1897.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 438.
The following Correspondence is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th October, 1897.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.
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SIR,
GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL,
HONGKONG, 7th October, 1897.
I have the honour to enclose, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, a letter which Miss MCINTOSH (Sister CATHERINE) received by the last Mail from the Bombay Government with reference to her services in India this year.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
The Honourable J. H. STEWArt Lockhart,
Colonial Secretary.
J. M. ATKINSON, Principal Civil Medical Officer.
No. Too of 1897.
MADAM,
(From the Secretary to Government to Miss C. McIntosh.)
GENERAL DEPARTMENT, POONA, 15th September, 1897.
I am directed by His Excellency the Governor in Council to send for your information an extract from a report by the late Mr. W. C. RAND, I.C.S., on the measures adopted for the suppression of plague in Poona. I am to say that, had your address been known, His Excellency in Council would have taken an earlier opportunity of expressing his own appreciation of the services you rendered whilst working under the Plague Committee in Poona. This appreciation is enhanced by the recol- lection that you were the first skilled nurse to offer your services, and that the offer was in the fullest sense voluntary.
I have the honour to be,
Madam,
Your most obedient Servant,
J. D. C. ATKINS,
Secretary to Government.
Enclosure.
"17. Of the ladies that accompanied the search divisions the following rendered valuable assist-
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"Miss MCINTOSH.
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"Miss MCINTOSH, who had had considerable experience of plague-nursing in Hongkong, was an invaluable assistant to the search parties till April 18th, when she was transferred to the General Plague Hospital on nursing duty."