18:
of the Government to the (in my
opinion) very necessary
measure
you contemplate bringing forward.
I have, &c
(Signed) B. Hoste, Captain
and Senior Officer:
(June 20)
Copy
Colonial Secretary.
Copy
To
19.
357
H. M. Ship "Spartan"
Hongkong,
October 12th 1854.
Sir,
In compliance with your
wish that I should acquaint
you with the number
of venereal disease that have resulted in this ship from
leave granted to the ship's-
Company at Hongkong and Macao, I beg to inform
you
that I find, from
the medical returns, that after leave given
in the months of March and April 1855, at
Captain Dir Dr. Hoste, R.N.:-