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9.
Your Petitioners firmly believe
that tuberculosis is not a worse evil in this Colony than any
other country where spitting is not indulged in or is prohibit-
ed, although such allegation has repeatedly been made in and
out of Council but no definite and authoritative returns have
ever been made and published in support of such an assertion.
10. Your Petitioners further believe
that in carrying out sanitary measures in this Colony it would
be much more effectively done by education and persuasion than
by force of law which late experience has shown to be the case.
And Your Excellency is reported to have said that you heartily
desired the willing and free co-operation of the Chinese
Community without resorting to compulsion or coercive measures.
Your Petitioners much appreciate
11.
Your Excellency's kind and considerate pledge given to the
Council that no regulations would be passed for a period of
six months during which time steps would be taken to educate
Chinese opinion in this matter. But in your Petitioners' humble
opinion such education would be successful among the Chinese if
unaccompanied by any threat of criminal punishment. On the
other hand your Petitioners firmly believe that if once the said
clause 8 of the said Ordinance Bill be passed into law it will
create doubt and distrust in the minds of the Chinese popula-
tion and will not serve the purposes intended.
12. Your Petitioners beg to refer
Your Excellency to the able speeches and remarks made by the
Honourables Dr. Ho Kai and Messrs. Wei Yuk, Pollock, Slade and
Gresson during the discussion of the said Bill in Council on
the 10th. and 17th. of December last in further support of
their Petition.
humbly pray
Your Petitioners, therefore,
That Your Excellency may be pleased to
reconsider