152
NO.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
PRINTE
FOR USE
180.
COLONIAL
OFF
1 24505
Rect
22 11 JUL 07.
Government House,
536
Hongkong, (8th. June, 1907.
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I have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of Your Lordship's Circular Despatch of the
28th. March last and with reference to its last paragraph
to refer Your Lordship to Sir Matthew Nathan's Despatch
+
No. 103 of the 23rd. April forwarding and commenting upon
a Report by the Inspector of Schools on the progress made
in the teaching of Hygiene in this Colony during the year
1906.
2.
With reference to the fourth
paragraph of the Despatch under reply it is considered
that lantern illustration of diseases, while adding no
doubt to the interest taken by the school children in the
course of instruction, would be somewhat beyond their
comprehension. They would, however, be useful in connection
with the lectures of the local branch of the Royal Sanitary
Institute, and when particulars as to the number and nature
of
he Right Honourable
The Earl of Elgin, K.G.,
&Gre
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