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Q.—Are the men in the quarantine camp still there?
A. They are still in quarantine.
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-Are the men on Stone Cutters' Island free yet?
-They are really still in quarantine, that is to say, they are segregated like the rest of the regiment.
Q.-I understand that all the troops were put into the Kowloon camp and that there was a sort of cordon put round them. Is that so?
A. That is still so.
Q-Has the Health Officer anything to do with them?
A.-Practically it is left to the military. authorities though the orders for the quarantine camp came from the Colonial authorities.
Q. How long are you going to keep these men there?
A.-I reported on Friday last that there was no reason why they should be kept for more than two or three days longer. I have written to the General Command- ing through D. A. A. G. for transmission to Colonial authorities, but the men are still there.
Q.-Is this the first matter of the kind that you have had to deal with since you came here ?
A.-In Hongkong, yes it is the first contact I have had with quarantine. We have, of course, had communicable disease on land which we have treated in our own way without reference to quarantine.
Q.-This, therefore, is the only case of quarantine you have had in Hongkong? A. Yes, the only case.
Q.-Have you had any experience in Mauritius or Singapore or any tropical country?
A.-Not in port quarantine. I have seen quarantine attempted on land.
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Q.-How long was the Orontes at Colombo after the case of small-pox had been landed?
time.
A.I have no precise information, but I know that she was there some little
Q. Three or four days?
A.--Not very long as far as I can understand.
Q.-Was there any detention at Colombo? Did she stay any length of time?
A.-I should think that she probably stopped about forty-eight hours.
Q.-The voyage was eight or ten days from Colombo to Singapore ?
A. I should think about eight days.
Q.-Then there would be two days more at Singapore?
A. Yes, probably.
Q.-So that makes, say, thirteen days since Colombo was left; then three days more, that is sixteen days before any cases showed any symptoms? That is a long interval is it not for incubation from an old case?
A.-It depends on what is meant by incubation.
Q.-I mean to say it is difficult to definitely fix the time for small-pox. You might keep a man under observation for a fortnight and then could not say that no further case would break out. Is that not so ?
A. Yes, you might keep him under observation for a month. A piece of clothes put into a box, or something of that sort might infect and bring it out again.