Correspondence regarding the Contagious Diseases Acts in Hongkong.
China Association to Colonial Office.
11745
SIR,
31, Lombard Street,
31st May, 1897.
The telegram from the Hongkong Branch of this Association which I have the honour to append is another expression of the movement in favour of remedial legislation that has been excited by recent disclosures as to the health of our troops. It will be within your recollection that Ordinances whose effect was beneficent while they were in force, were repealed in Hongkong and the Straits Settlements, as well as in India, in opposition to the strongly expressed opinion of the Civil and Military Authorities, and of the public generally, in both colonies. That feeling has been strengthened as experience has confirmed the apprehensions entertained. Medical Reports show that the consequence to the health of the garrisons has been disastrous, and the present telegram is an opportune expression of a conviction that has never slackened.
The Committee refrain from entering into the question more fully at present, as they have no doubt that this appeal will be followed by a statement of facts and of the special considerations that affect Hongkong. They confine themselves, therefore, to the expression of a hope that the interests which the Association represents will, in the meantime, receive due consideration.
The Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, M.P.,
Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies.
(Signed) R. S. GUNDRY,
Hon. Sec. China Association.
TELEGRAM.
Enforcement Contagious (disease) ordinance imperative. Condition garrison deplorable.
Hongkong, 28th May, 1897.
SIR.
China Association, Hongkong, to General Committee, London.
Hongkong, 12th May, 1897.
I have the pleasure to hand you herein statistics containing a comparative statement of the health of the troops in garrison during 1884-6 and 1894-6. The figures speak for themselves.
The Colonial Secretary has promised his assistance in procuring further statistics in other directions, which I hope to hand you shortly. Until these are available it seems unnecessary to further refer to the opinions entertained by the Committee, than to repeat that they are prepared to support a movement having for its object the control of Contagious Diseases.
(Signed)
F. HENDERSON,
Hon. Secretary.
R. S. Gundry, Esq., Hon. Secretary,
China Association, London.
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Contagious Diseases Acts in Hongkong.
China Association to Colonial Office.
11745
SIR,
31, Lombard Street,
31st May, 1897.
The telegram from the Hongkong Branch of this Association which I have the honour to append is another expression of the movement in favour of remedial legislation that has been excited by recent disclosures as to the health of our troops. It will be within your recollection that Ordinances whose effect was beneficent while they were in force, were repealed in Hongkong and the Straits Settlements, as well as in India, in opposition to the strongly expressed opinion of the Civil and Military Authorities, and of the public generally, in both colonies. That feeling has been strengthened as experience has confirmed the apprehensions entertained. Medical Reports show that the consequence to the health of the garrisons has been disastrous, and the present telegram is an opportune expression of a conviction that has never slackened.
The Committee refrain from entering into the question more fully at present, as they have no doubt that this appeal will be followed by a statement of facts and of the special considerations that affect Hongkong. They confine themselves, therefore, to the expression of a hope that the interests which the Association represents will, in the meantime, receive due consideration.
The Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, M.P.,
(Signed) R. S. GUNDRY,
Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Hon. Sec. China Association.
TELEGRAM.
Enforcement Contagious (disease) ordinance imperative. deplorable.
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Hongkong, 28th May, 1897.
Condition garrison
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SIR.
China Association, Hongkong, to General Committee, London.
Hongkong, 12th May, 1897.
I have the pleasure to hand you herein statistics containing a comparative state- ment of the health of the troops in garrison during 1884-6 and 1894-6. The figures speak for themselves.
The Colonial Secretary has promised his assistance in procuring further statistics in other directions, which I hope to hand you shortly. Until these are available it seems unnecessary to further refer to the opinions entertained by the Committee, than to repeat that they are prepared to support a movement having for its object the control of Contagious Diseases.
(Signed)
F. HENDERSON,
Hon. Secretary.
R. S. Gundry, Esq., Hon. Secretary,
China Association, London.
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