Enclosure 1.
(C O P Y)
་ ་ 00317 Rec2
Colonial Secretaryfip00 Singapore, 13th. June, 1900.
Colonies 4526/00.
sir,
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Referring to my telegram of the 6th. inst.stating that coolie imigration from HongKong to this Colony had been prohibited, owing to bubonic plague, I em directed to inform you that the Officer Administer-
ing the Government in Council was induced to take this measure by the growing increase in the returns of plague cases in longKong, and by an intimation made in the "China Mail" of May 12th that the Sanitary Board was proposing to enforce a regulation empowering persons suffering Iron plague to leave the Colony under certain
restrictions.
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2. This last measure seens 90
opposed to real and sanitary and prophylactic precau-
tions and to the terms of the Venice Convention that
I am to enquire what exactly is the proposal or
measure.
3. I am also to bring to your notice that though the P.& 0."Coromandel" es detained in
HongKong, May 25th.on account of three cases of plague which developed on board, no telegram warning this Gov- erument was received from you. One native lascar died
on the 29th May, on the voyage from LongKong to Singa-
pore, of suspected plague. I am informed that he had
been ill since May 23rd. and had been seen by the
Health
The Honourable
Colonial Secretary,
liongKong.
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The Daily Press of 11th May,
1900,