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NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 1. It is hereby notified, with reference to Notification No. S. 314 of the 24th October, 1919, that information has been received from the Consul-General for the Netherlands-India to the effect that the declaration of Hongkong as an infected port on account of plague has been rescinded by his Government.
No. S. 2.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.
Place or Port.
Nature of Measures.
Date.
Reference
to Govern- ment Noti. fication.
No. S. 49.
Philippine Islands.
Newchwang. All vessels arriving from Hongkong will be treated as
Suspected Vessels.
All passengers from Hongkong to produce special certificate.
7th March, 1918.
27th May, 1919.
No. S. 86.
Singapore.
Bengal.
Hongkong declared an infected port on account of plague.
Regulations for the prevention of the introduction of plague by sea enforced in the ports of Orissa against vessels arriving from Hongkong.
19th July, 1918.
24th June, 1918.
No. S. 181.
No. S. 192.
Tsingtan.
All ships arriving from Hongkong must fumigate before
entering Tsingtau.
7th July, 1919.
No. S. 183.
No. S. 3.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted by Ilongkong.
Disease.
Port or Place.
Restrictions in Force.
Cholera.
Bangkok.
Medical examination; quarantino at the discre-
tion of the Health Officer.
Cholera.
Philippine Islands.
Do.
Authority.
Notification No. 194 of 26th April, 1919.
Notification No. 418 of 12th September, 1919.
No. S. 4. Returns of the Average Aniount of BANK Nores in Circulation and of Specie in Reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st December, 1919, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks :-
BANKS.
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN RESERVE.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,
10,454,914
5,000,000*
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
Mercantile Bank of India, Limited,
24,874,290
17,000,000
969,276
550,000†
TOTAL,
36,298,510
22,550,000
* Sterling Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £430,000. † Securities with the Crown Agents £137,000.