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FOREIGN OFFICE.

May 29 1900.

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Rest REG 30 MAY 00

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Sir:-

I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to

acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th

instant stating that the Government of Hong Kong

has decided to become a party to the Venice Sanitary

Convention of 1897 and inclosing a copy of the Quar-

antine Regulations of the Colony.

I am to observe that the various periods of time

stated in the Regulations are those required by the

Convention and that therefore the other parties to

the Convention can have no fault to find with them

in this particular,

These Regulations however apply to Cholera,

smallpox, and certain other diseases, whereas in the

recent Sanitary Conventions the different periods

vary according to the period of incubation of the

disease concerned, and the period of incubation of

plague

Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.