CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9] — Page 406

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I have to acknowledge the receipt of your te-

legram of 8th, instant directing that regulations that had been

made allowing the removal of persons suffering from Plague to

their homes in China should be cancelled.

2. Your telegram was the first intimation that

I had of the existence of such a regulation which hấd I find

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been suspended during my absence, as the Medical Officer of Health was under the impression that it infringed the provi- sions of the Venice Convention.

3. On receipt of your telegram I looked over

the papers on the subject and read the Convention. As I presume that the information on which your telegram was based came from Singapore I have the honour to attach a copy of the cor- respondence with that Colony while I was on leave, as also a copy of the regulation as to removal.

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4. It appears to me on reading the Internation-

al Sanitary Convention signed at Venice that the Convention was agreed to for the express purpose of preventing the intro- duction of plague to any of the 18 countries represented, and

The Right Honourable

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,M,P.

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