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21463.
No.
CONFIDENTIAL.(2)
AIR MAIL.
27
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
49
4
HONG KONG.
9th August, 1937.
(48).
sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your confidential air mail despatch
of 16th July, 1937, regarding the activities of the Hong Kong Eugenics League.
2.
I have been unable to find any
corroboration of the statement that the sale of contraceptives is illegal in South China, and a number of local Chinese (including one barrister who practises in the Canton Courts) deny the
truth of this.
3.
It is known that contraceptives are on
sale without hindrance in chemists' shops in
Canton and the two leading hospitals in that city, the Canton Hospital and the Hackett Memorial
Hospital, have birth-control clinics. Others are known to exist at Peiping and Shanghai.
4.
I am assured that the Hong Kong Eugenics League, though it communicates with the two Canton clinics mentioned, has not in fact conducted any
propaganda outside the Colony.
5.
I enclose for your information two copies
of the League's first Annual Report the opening
sentence of which does in fact mention the
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
W.G.A.ORMSBY-GORE, P.C.,
&c., &c., &C.
M.P.,
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