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become general and increase to such an extent as to prove detrimental to the commerce, manufacture and industries of this Port.
6.
That the Chinese Government is not one of the Signatory Governments of the Convention; and that it has never taken any measure for the prevention of plague cases from leaving its dominion and entering the territories of other nations.
7.
That Canton and its neighbouring districts, from which nearly the whole of the Chinese population of this Colony originally came, are and have been for years past infected with bubonic plague, and that the Authorities at Canton have never objected to the return of plague-stricken Chinese from Hong Kong, Macao or other places.
8.
That your Petitioners humbly submit that in view of the facts stated in paragraphs 5 and 6 the granting, under certain sanitary conditions, of permissions to Chinese suffering from bubonic plague to leave this Colony for their native home in Canton and its surrounding districts, could scarcely be considered to be a violation of Chapter I of the Venice Convention 1897, the sole object of which Convention being the making of certain sanitary regulations for the prevention of the introduction and propagation of bubonic plague to and in the Countries adhering to the said Convention, and the devising of means to prevent the spread and introduction of bubonic plague into countries free from it.
9.
That your Petitioners fully recognise the extreme impropriety of permitting persons suffering from bubonic plague to embark on ocean-going vessels and for ports and localities outside the neighbouring Province of Kwang Tung.
10.
That it is generally acknowledged by those most competent to judge that the entire prevention of persons infected with plague from leaving this Colony for the mainland of China opposite is utterly impracticable; and that the forcible detention of the large number of plague cases in the Colony together with a certain proportion of cases getting away surreptitiously under no sanitary regulations and conditions is positively harmful to the health and welfare of this Port.
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Your Petitioners therefore pray that it may please Your Excellency to direct that the aforesaid regulations under which persons
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become general and increase to such an extent as to prove detrimental to the commerce,
manufacture and industries of this Port.
6.
That the Chinese Government is not one of the Signatory Goverments of the Conven-
tion; and that it has never taken any measure for the prevention of plague cases from
leaving its dominion and entering the territories of other nations.
7.
That Canton and its neighbouring districts, from which nearly the whole of the
Chinese population of this Colony originally came, are and have been for years past infected
with bubonic plague, and that the Authorities at Canton have never objected to the return of
plague-stricken Chinese from Hong Kong, Macao or other places.
8.
That your Petitioners humbly submit that in view of the facts stated in paragraphs
5 and 6 the granting, under certain sanitary conditions, or permissions to Chinese suffering from bubonic plague to leave this Colony for their native home in Canton and its surrounding districts, could scarcely be considered to be a violation of Chapter I of the Venice Conven-
tion 1897, the sole object or which Convention being the making of certain sanitary regula-
tions for the prevention of the introduction and propagation of bubonic plague to and in the
Countries adhering to the said Convention, and the devising of means to prevent the spread
and introduction of bubonic plague into countries free from it.
9.
That your Petitioners fully recognise the extreme impropriety of permitting
persona suffering from bubonic plagure to embark on ocean going vessels and for ports and
localities outside the neighbouring Province of Kwang Tung.
10.
That it is generally acknowledged by those most competent to judge that the entire
prevention of persons infected with plague from leaving this Colony for the mainland of China opposite is utterly impracticable; and that the forcible detention of the large
number of plagur cases in the Colony together with a certain proportion of cases getting away surreptitiously under no sanitary regulations and conditions is positively harmful to
the health and welfare of this Port.
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Your Petitioners therefore pray
that it may please Your Excellency
to direct that the aforesaid
regulations under which persons
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