have been taken will prevent the outbreak from being as widespread and as fatal as it was in 1894.
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Mr. Fairfield,
Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Bramston.
Sir R. Meade,
Earl of Selborne.
Mr. Chamberlain.
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Sir
In answer to your Letter of the 7th inst. I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to state that in his Opinion no Communication need be made to foreign governments on the subject of the bubonic plague in Hongkong, under the circumstances of mortality from the present epidemic.
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