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Your Lordship will have long since seen from my despatch N.99 of the 21st of June, 1881, I was able to send the following telegram to the Government of New South Wales on the 20th of June :-
"Health Officer reports Hongkong free from any epidemic of infectious or contagious disease and that out of the three thousand five hundred and eighty eight Chinese he examined this month as emigrants none was suffering from small-pox. The Governor therefore hopes that Quarantine will not be enforced against Hongkong."
The following extract from an article in the Sydney Morning Herald of the 26th of July, 1881, shows that the truth as to the immunity of the Hongkong Chinese from Small-pox has been made known in New South Wales:-
"We must, in all fairness, take into account the large number of Chinamen who have been landed at Port Darwin and Rocktown, without, so far as has been recorded a single case of small-pox. Up to the present time Hongkong has not shown itself a more dangerous port than London. We are justified in taking every reasonable precaution; but we are not justified in reproaching the Hongkong Government undeservedly. No doubt other Australian newspapers have given circulation to...
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fes Your Lordship will have long
seen
since
from my despatch N.99 of the 21st of June, 1881, I was able to send the following telegram to the Government of
New South Wales
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the 20th of June :-
"Health Officer reports Honghong free from any epidemie of infections - contagious disease and that out of the three thousand five hundred and eighty eight Chinese he examined ~
this month as
emigrants
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suffering from small-pox. The Governor therefore hopes that Quarantine will "not be enforced against Bonghong?
Hel quer the following extract from
an arteale in the Sydney Morning Herald" of the 26th of July, 1881, shows that the truth
As
to the immunity of the "Bonghong Chinese
from Small-poxe
New South Wales:-
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We must, in all fairness,
take into account the large number
of Chinamen who have been landed "at Post Darwin and booktown, without
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so
case
far
as has been recorded a single
of small-pox. Up to the present time Hongkong has not shown itself
a
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dangerous port than London. justified in taking every
reasonable precaution; but we are
not justified in reproaching the Hongkong Government undeservedly
No doubt other Australian
newspapers have given
circulation to
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