CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12] — Page 250

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Sir,

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Government House, -

Hongkong, 22nd October, 1901.

In a Memorandum by Professor Simpson on the influence of rats in the dissemination of plague issued in May 1900, (Miscellaneous No.127) which was received in your Circular Despatch of the 7th June, 1900, I find in a note on page 9 that an investigator, M. Denysz of Paris, had obtained excellent results in destroying rats in Paris by inoculation. If any further report has been made upon this subject I shall be glad if the Crown Agents will kindly let me have it, and if necessary obtain for this Colony some of the inoculating medicine so that the experiment may be tried here before next February, at the end of which month or beginning of March plague usually re-appears.

I have the honour to be,

RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,

&c. &c. &c.

Sir,

Your most obedient

Humble servant,

Henry A. Blake

Governor, &c. &c. &c.