Enclosure 7.
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
PRESENT :-
17TH OCTOBER, 1918.
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spielenieenigitisin Hangkangol) 1st Lieut. Peter K. Olitsky, M.R.C.,
HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINIS-U.S.A., of the Rockefeller Institute for
TERING
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GOVERNMENT,
CLAUD SEVERN, C.M.G.
HON. MR.
HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL F. VENTRIS (General Officer Commanding Troops in China).
Medical Research, New York.
H.E. THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT-1 do not intend on this occasion to deal in any exhaustive way with the very interesting and instructive
HON. MR. A. G. M. FLETCHER report written by Lieutenant Olitsky as (Colonial Secretary).
HON. MR. J. H. KEMP (Attorney- General).
HON. MR. A. M. THOMSON (Colonial Treasurer).
a result of his investigations of the out- break of epidemic Meningitis in Hong- kong in the early part of this year which has been laid before you to-day. I think, however,
hon. A that
will members agree that the Colony is indebted to Lieutenant Olitsky for the painstaking care with which he studied, during quite a short period, conditions entirely new to him with the result that he has been able to give some very practical advice HON. MR. T. L. PERKINS (Director of as to how this threat to the public health Public Works).
HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX (Secretary for Chinese Affairs).
HON. MR. C. McI. MESSER (Captain Superintendent of Police).
HON. MR. D. LANDALE.
HON. MR. P. H. HOLYOAK.
HON. MR. HO FOOK.
HON. MR. H. W. BIRD.
HON. MR. CHAN KAI-MING.
HON. MR. S. H. DODWELL.
may best be met.
The portion of the report that will appeal most strongly to the ordinary reader is that contained on pages to 10, namely, the course of the epidemic and the factors contributing to its dis semination, especially the facts as re- gards overcrowding on pages 9 and 10. I feel sure that honourable members
MR. A. DYER BALL (Clerk of Coun- will realise what the work entailed in cils).
New Member
The Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell took his seat as a member of Council vice Mr. E. Shellim.
getting rid of such overcrowding, quite apart from the expenditure, would amount to. The task of correcting the errors of the past will, however, have to be faced if the community is to be pro- serious tected against epidemics of disease. In this connection' I would direct attention to the interesting com
The Minutes of the last meeting were parison on page 16 of the report between confirmed.
Epidemic Meningitis
the overcrowding in Hongkong and Can- ton and to the statement in paragraph C (1) of the summary on page 21 that the greater number of cases developed in cold weather as compared with hot weather is due to overcrowding becoming greater number of cases developed in effect of cold weather on the mening- of cocci.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by com- mand of H.E. the Officer Administering the Governnient, laid upon the table Sessional Paper, No. 10-report on the investigations of the outbreak
The