Registrar-General's Office,
Hongkong, 15th June, 1909.
Sir,
With reference to previous correspondence in 4958/07 C.O., I forward herewith a letter from Messrs. Denison, Ram and Gibbs and a plan of the locality of the proposed plague hospital at Wanchai. The site has already been approved by the Principal Civil Medical Officer and the Committee will come into actual possession of I.L. 790 on the 1st July. I am requested by the Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee to apply for a grant of the portion of Crown land adjacent to I.L. 790 shown on the accompanying plan. The feelings of the neighbours must be respected if the hospital is to be built by voluntary subscriptions, and it is therefore necessary to remove the hospital as far as possible from inhabited houses consistent with its remaining accessible and not so much isolated as to render patients averse to entering it. The road on which it is proposed to place the hospital is not a thoroughfare. The plan of the buildings will very probably be considerably modified, the dispensary being placed nearest the District Watchman Station and the hospital being either a one-storied building or reduced in size. Beds for 20 patients will be sufficient.
I have etc.,
(Sd.) A. W. Brewin,
Registrar-General.
The Honourable
Mr. A. M. Thomson,
Colonial Secretary.