The arbitrator question of the treatment of small pox patients in the Naval Hospital in Hong Kong.
It is understood from your letter of the 9th July 1888 that their Lordships will have such information.
DRAFT.
MINUTE.
The Secretary of State for War Office.
Mr. Stubbs, Mr. Collins, Mr. Antrobus, Mr. Cox, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Graham, Sir H. Ommanney, The Duke of Marlborough, Mr. Lyttelton.
Copy sent 12 July to Hong Kong.
No. 23627.
You are directed to request the Governor of Hong Kong to inform the Secretary of State that a difference of opinion having arisen between the Governor of Hong Kong and the Naval Authorities in that Colony on the question whether the treatment of small pox cases at the Naval Diseases Hospital constitutes a danger to the health of the Community, it has been decided to report...