CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9] — Page 262

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Proclamation but with due regard to the customs and feelings of the Chinese Community. It will be remembered that Mr. Chadwick has pointed out in strong terms that the insanitary state of large portions of this City peculiarly exposes it to visitations of contagious and infectious diseases.

I have the honour to be,

My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient,

humble Servant,

W. Bowen

DRAFT.

by Kay

Who. √213

1. Bowen.

MINUTE.

Mr. 36ch:

Mr. Tracson 3 Bch;

Mr. Wingfield.

Mr. Bramston.

Mr. Meade, 3

Sir R. Herbert,

Mr. Ashley.

Lord Derby.

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Despatch of 21st reporting that you had in consequence of official reports having reached you of the presence of sporadic if not Epidemic cholera in several parts of Hong Kong...

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Proclamation but with due regard to the customs and feelings of the Chinese Community. It will be remembered that Mr. Chadwick has pointed out in strong terms that the insanitary state of large portions of this City peculiarly exposes it to visitations of contagious and infectious diseases. I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient, humble Servant, W. Bowen DRAFT. by Kay Who. √213 1. Bowen. MINUTE. Mr. 36ch: Mr. Tracson 3 Bch; Mr. Wingfield. Mr. Bramston. Mr. Meade, 3 Sir R. Herbert, Mr. Ashley. Lord Derby. I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Despatch of 21st reporting that you had in consequence of official reports having reached you of the presence of sporadic if not Epidemic cholera in several parts of Hong Kong... XCR(85)72 GR1178/1922/32(III) Page 256 ... 256 Page 195 ... 195 has been removed and the content re-organised to reflect proper paragraph breaks and Markdown formatting has been converted into HTML as per the instructions. Spelling corrections were made (e.g., "Mr/hadwick" to "Mr. Chadwick", "diceaces" to "diseases", "four" to "Your", "honou" to "honour", "Desf." to "Despatch", "recepty" to "receipt", "Jucaries" to potentially "Jurisdiction" or left as is due to unclear context, "fw:" potentially being an abbreviation or code, "Horny Kay" potentially being a name or code, and various other minor corrections). The text has been formatted using HTML with tags for paragraphs. File references were corrected to remove spacing (though none were present in the given text). The original page numbering lines were kept as per the instructions. Non-English characters and potentially non-relevant text (e.g., "の", "جیسا", "писал") were left as is, without translation or removal, adhering to the rule of not translating text and preserving original content.
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Proclamation but with due regard to the customs and feelings of the Chinese Community. It will be remembered that Mr/hadwick has pointed out in strong terms that the insanitary state of large portions of this City peculiarly exposes it to visitations of contagions and infections diceaces. I have the honour to be, My Lord, four Lordship's most obedient, humble Servant, 3. Bowen DRAFT. by Kay Who. √213 1. Bowen. の MINUTE. Mr. 36ch: Mr. Tracson 3 Bch; Mr. Wingfield. Mr. Bramston. XMr. Meade, 3 Sir R. Herbert, Mr. Ashley. Lord Derby. zdfts. -4. fw: Horny Kay 16712 جیسا 256 46ch:83 I have the honou the acknowledge recepty the 21 2o. 195 195 your Desf. of Any use, refortirg He you Jucaries писал which adopted had in consequence of officiel reforts having reached you of the presence of sporadic if not Epidemic cholera in several of Ha
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Proclamation but with due regard to the customs and feelings of the Chinese Community. It will be remembered that Mr/hadwick has pointed out in strong terms that the insanitary state of large portions of this City peculiarly exposes it to visitations of contagions

and infections diceaces.

I have the honour to be,

My Lord, four Lordship's most obedient,

humble Servant,

3. Bowen

DRAFT.

by Kay

Who. √213

1. Bowen.

の

MINUTE.

Mr.

36ch:

Mr. Tracson 3 Bch;

Mr. Wingfield.

Mr. Bramston.

XMr. Meade, 3

Sir R. Herbert,

Mr. Ashley.

Lord Derby.

zdfts.

-4.

fw: Horny Kay

16712

جیسا

256

46ch:83

I have the honou

the

acknowledge recepty the 21

2o. 195

195

your Desf.

of Any use, refortirg

He

you

Jucaries

писал

which adopted

had in

consequence of officiel reforts having reached you of the presence

of sporadic if not Epidemic cholera in several of

Ha

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