is fallacious. The chief reason for that low death rate is given, marked passage at p. 5 of Registrar General's Report for 1891 annexed (copy of which was sent to the ...).
viz. that one of the inhabitants of Hong Kong - whether Europeans or Chinese - during middle life, preferring to go home to die.
? Copy of Sir W. Des Voeux's covering letter to ... Bernard with the letter addressed to Lord Brassey asking him to be good enough to forward it to Lord Brassey, state for his lordship's information that this death rate (28 per 1000) quoted in the letter from memory is actually higher than the death rate for the last two years, which was given at about 23 per thousand in the Reports of the Registrar General transmitted for the information of the Royal Commission.
... Opinn in the letter from Mis Dept. of 19 ... and so inform ...
We ... Hee ... not dra ... Jind the attenti ... C 21310 Grand Hotel Guichard, PAU Basses Pyrénées FRANCE. December 16 1893.
Sir, I have the honour to enclose for the consideration of the Secretary of State for the Colonies a letter which I have addressed to Lord Brassey, President of the Opium Commission. I should be much obliged if His Lordship would move the India office to forward the letter to its destination.
Perhaps you would kindly have checked before transmission my statement of the Hongkong death-rate which is given from memory.
Sir, I have the honour to be, Your most obedient servant to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
In W. des Voeux, 20/2 557.12. Run 22/12 C.P.L. 20 82411 Report.
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