# St47. Hong Kong
## Leprosy
### Best Judice Report
C:0: AUC 19 1867
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My Lord Duke,
Government House, Hong Kong, 28th June, 1867
I have the honour to state in reply to the inquiries made in
Your Grace's despatch of the 19th April last that there is no law or practice existing in this Colony for the compulsory seclusion of Lepers.
His Grace
The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos,
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,