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COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
HONGKONG, 10th July, 1918.
SIR,I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th June, transmitting your report on the investigations of the outbreak of epidemic meningitis in Hongkong, which was handed to me by you on the 6th July.
His Excellency the Governor has perused the report with much interest, and desires me to convey to you his great appreciation of your valuable work during the short period you have been in Hongkong.
The clear and practical recommendations made in your report will have the earnest consideration of this Government, and it is hoped that it may be possible to take such measures as will tend to ameliorate the conditions existing in the Colony and to ecmbat the spread of the epidemic.
I have, &c.,
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
First Lieut. PETER K. OLITSKY, M.R.C., U.S.A.