Lin
in original, from the Director
of Public Works.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
William Robinson
Enclosure
the Works Department.
No 152.
2.
3.
To
The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary.
RECT
C. O.
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Office,
257
Public Works LETT APR. 37
;th March... 1897
Hongkong, 15th March
with
I have the honour to acknowledge, with thanks the receipt of a copy of Staff Surgeon Wilm's (Imperial German Navy) report on "the Epidemic of Bubonic Plague at Hong Kong Year 1896."
The report is mainly of a technical nature and deals for the most part with matters outside the profession of Engineering, but Section VII "The origin and the mode of dissemination of the Plague Hong Kong, page 23 contains statements which, to say the least, lack accuracy and are misleading and exhibit such a want of precision as to render it most unfortunate that they should have been published in what doubtless will be viewed as an official document.
It is needless for me to refer in detail to the...