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Government.
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relieve of push loan.
Necessary Rubinie plague Endemic part of China Originated here after drought
for a number of huruths Foul Bills of death issued 10th May All steamers leaving
Indically Examined
Will telegraph later Cooper's date of departure
My
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and 165 Just in reference to the Evidence which has
led to Existence of this Colony since
the beginning of last May.
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At the
risk of repeating some of the statements I have made in those communications it may be convenient to Your Lordship that I should forward to You a narrative, disjointed though it may be, of the principal incidents that have occurred in connection with the plague during the last month.
5. On my return to the Colony from Japan on the 18th May after Eight weeks leave of absence I found that Major-General Barker, who had been Administering the Government since the
4 April, owing to the sudden departure
on account of
illness
of
Mr O'Brien
the Colonial Secretary, had issued a Proclamation on the 5th May declaring
Hongkong to be an infected
infected port in
Accordance with the provisions of
Public Health Ordinance
No 24 of 1887.
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6. A Permanent Committee Sanitary Board Consisting of three members had thereupon been appointed, and those
Gentlemen, in conjunction with Dr Lawson, Dr Pengy R.G. and Surgeon-Major James Lowson, have since acted with Extraordinary energy and Efficiency, at once passed Bye-Laws and Regulations which I have already forwarded and which were without delay passed and confirmed by the Executive Council and ultimately legalized by the Legislative Council.
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Hospitals were at once Established. (1) on board the ss Hygeia (2) at Kennedy Town Police Station and (3) on
the
20th day at the Glass works at Kennedy Town. The first two were managed by the Government Doctors and the Lady Nurses from the Government Hospital, the latter was handed over to the Tung Wah
Hospital