That I submit, in offering already External,
The Occasmes already
Should tell Sir L. Bowen that he must not hesitate to put in force, however, their agent if any means were
Jade &
Wing rost to fresh legislative if necessary; that Lord deely sensto that the year being to for
The disease will not spread in China, but that any reappearance of it next year may be mercifully watched. And send copy to G.O. requesting that any information on the subject of the existence of Cholera in any epidemic form or sporadic in China which may be communicated to the British Embassy at Pekin or any of the H.B.M. Consuls in China may be communicated to the Govt. of Hong Kong? and tell Sir F. Bowen "of Hong Kong we have done to prevent it."
29/9
In writing to the G.O. it may be as well to refer to G.O.278 letter of 17 April on F.O. 253 E 5947, to show that we have not overlooked the arrangement then made but only to remind them of it & to apply it to China.
29/9
If Cholera establishes itself in Hongkong Sir J. Pope Hennessy will have incurred a fearful responsibility in having resisted sanitary improvement during the past year.
(which will weigh had him much. he is quietly settled in Australia!) write to S.G.O.