122 133
545
955
565
These regulations were also issued at a date when the precise terms of the Venice Convention had not been made known, and they carot have bom prepared with a view to compliance with then.
3rd. Report by the Principal Civil Medical Officers of the Colony as to the measures of precaution adopted in Hong Kong: against arrivals from places where plaque exists. This is dated 21st February 1898. It is followed on 31st August 1898 by a letter from Downing Street (signature not given in copy letter) in which the officer administering the Covernment of Hong Kong is urged to give complete adherence to the terms of the Convention and, if possible, to provide a place for the surveillance and observation of persons retained
under control.
Up to the date of that document, the latest relating to the actual practice of the Colony, it was therefore clear that the then practice did not fulfil the requirements of the Colony.
4th. Newspaper extracts of a lengthened debate of
the Sanitary Board on August 19th 1897, onding in the
adoption of a resolution moved by the President to the
effect that the colony "cannot adhore in its entirety
with the Convention."
I would therefore submit that I have not the
material enabling me to advise the Board on the question
put to them.