DESPATCH.
numbered despatches from your department being and will in
be con
are now-
future
communicated to the
Executive Council, and that
when a
a
despatch is with
held the reasons will be
duly reported to you
confidential.
tion.
you in a
communica_
I have the honour to be,
Dir
Your Most Oordient
Humble Servant,
Mlack
Major General, Administering the Govern
ment
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No.
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vernor. lack
1898
18 Nov.
at previous Paper.
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W.Q. Straits
Further trails Barge / 28 april W.0. inf. 1 May 2312
Grails cous (24
HONG KONG
No.
28461
(Subject.)
C.0.
28461
Read &
Regd 19 Dec.1898
VENEREAL DISEASE
Sende two draft Bills dealing with
Considers without undiluted C.D.Act little good will
be done: no objection to employment of women doctors.
PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT
b. 9523 Oct 1899
Minutes.)
74
Mr.Lucas
Mr.Chamberlain's despatch to the Straits Settlements
and Hong Kong is at p.48 of the annexed print (Eastern No. 69); his despatch to Ceylon on p.51; the S.S. replies are Son pp.51.8gq; the Ceylon reply is on p.90; and the Hong
Hong reply on p.94.
JI. As to Ceylon. The Governor does not say anything as
to his reasons for thinking the proposed Ordinance desirable- a point which was not decided definitely in Mr.Chamberlain's
despatch. I hope that Mr.Charcherlain will now decide not
to take the proposed action in Ceylon for the following
reasons:-
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that
A
A. There is no evidence there has been any increase
.94 of print of venereal diseases in Ceylon since the repeal of the C.D.0.
The figures given in an enclosure to Sir West Ridgeway's
|HL (5) --390-10000-12-67
7836-7000-7-0
ect subsequent Paper
20826
.0./459€
Straits
despatch are incomplete and misleading because they only give
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gross totals and not percentages. The figures for nearly
twent