CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8] — Page 469

To

467

Medical Officer of Health

The President of the Sanitary

Board.

COPY.

Sir,

Sanitary Board Offices,

Hong Kong, 3rd July, 1899.

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I have the honour to submit the following for the

information of His Excellency the Governor in reply to the

statements and opinions recorded in the Despatch of His Excel-

lency the General Commanding in China and Hong Kong to the Secre-

tary of State for War.

A. Insufficiency of Medical Officers in the Colonial

Service for sanitary work.

In my annual report for 1897 I strongly urged the

appointment of three Assistant Medical Officers of Health for

sanitary duties afloat, with a view to the prevention of the

introduction of disease into this Colony by the shipping, but

my representations on this point, urged not only in that year,

but also in my Reports for 1896 and 1898, have met with no res-

ponse. I am, moreover, of the opinion that there is ample scope

as President,

for

Sanitary Board.