No.
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Hongkong.
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My Lord,
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REGE 19 EP 10,
Government House,
Hongkong, 17th. August, 1910,
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With reference to my Despatch
No. 272 of the 11th. instant in which I forwarded certain
Supplementary Votes for Your Lordship's sanction and to the
item which formed the subject of Financial Minute No. 60,
I have now the honour to inform you that in connection
with the establishment of an Observation Station at Lai-
-chi-kok which was reported in Sir F. Lugard's Despatch
No. 144 of the 27th. May, 1908, it has been found desir-
-able to build a permanent Hospital with quarters for
Medical Officers attached, in case the necessity of
occupying the Observation Station should arise, for the
reception and treatment of persons confined in the
Observation Station who might fall sick. This necessity is
the more urgent now that the Hospital Hulk Hygeia has been
abolished
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she was sold last year for $25,000.
I enclose a plan of the Hospital
which
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CREWE &0.1
&C....