CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901 — Page 188

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All AI Reviewed

187

C. O.

41409 Rece

REC 23 NOV 01

794 M 1901.

Copy.

The comments of the acting P.C.M.O. of Hong Kong are directed in effect less to criticism of regulations as to seaborne infection now in force in the colony than to protest against the application in any stringent sense to Hong Kong of what he considers the principles embodied in the Venice Convention.

That Convention prescribes as regards Plague certain maxima of restrictions adoptable in differing conditions by the Signatory Powers. Under the convention no such Power can adopt measures of a stringency in excess of those maxima without rendering its Government liable to protest from the other countries concerned. But it is open to each and all to adopt (as England has done) measures less stringent than the measures accepted of the Convention, provided always the Government adopting measures of minor stringency is prepared to be regarded as lax and dangerous in the matter of plague administration and prepared also to suffer in consequence disadvantage to its shipping trade at the hands of other nations.

Probably Mr Bell's attitude in the matter of plague administration at Hong Kong is largely determined by the circumstance that the colony is and has long been a plague-infected area. So long as Hong Kong retains plague it is a matter of comparative indifference to

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187 C. O. 41409 Rece REC 23 NOV 01 794 M 1901. Copy. The comments of the acting P.C.M.O. of Hong Kong are directed in effect less to criticism of regulations as to seaborne infection now in force in the colony than to protest against the application in any stringent sense to Hong Kong of what he considers the principles embodied in the Venice Convention. That Convention prescribes as regards Plague certain maxima of restrictions adoptable in differing conditions by the Signatory Powers. Under the convention no such Power can adopt measures of a stringency in excess of those maxima without rendering its Government liable to protest from the other countries concerned. But it is open to each and all to adopt (as England has done) measures less stringent than the measures accepted of the Convention, provided always the Government adopting measures of minor stringency is prepared to be regarded as lax and dangerous in the matter of plague administration and prepared also to suffer in consequence disadvantage to its shipping trade at the hands of other nations. Probably Mr Bell's attitude in the matter of plague administration at Hong Kong is largely determined by the circumstance that the colony is and has long been a plague-infected area. So long as Hong Kong retains plague it is a matter of comparative indifference to - 1 -

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> 187 C. 0. 41409 Rece REC 23 NOV 01 794 M 1901. Copy. The corments of the acting P.C.M.0. of Hong Kong are directed in effect less to criticism of regulations as to seaborne infection now in force in the colony than to protest against the application in any stringent sense to Hong Kong of what he considers the principles embodied in the Venice Convention. That Convention prescribes as regards Plague certain maxima of restrictions adoptable in differing conditions by the Signatory Powers. Under the convention no such Power can adopt measures of a stringency in excess of those maxima without rendering its Goverment liable to protest from the other countries concerned. But it is open to each and all to adopt (as England has done) measures less stringent than the measures accepted of the Convention, provided always the Government adopting measures of minor stringency is prepared to be regarded as lax and dangerous in the matter of plague administration and prepared also to suffer in consequence disadvantage to its shipping trade at the hands of other nations. Probably Mr Bell's attitude in the matter of plague administration at Hong Kong is largely determined by the circumstance that the colony is and has long been a plague-infected area. So long as Hong Kong retains plague it is a matter of comparative indifference to - 1-

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187

C. 0.

41409 Rece

REC 23 NOV 01

794 M 1901.

Copy.

The corments of the acting P.C.M.0. of Hong Kong are directed in effect less to criticism of regulations as to seaborne infection now in force in the colony than to protest against the application in any stringent sense to Hong Kong of what he considers the principles embodied in the Venice Convention.

That Convention prescribes as regards Plague certain maxima of restrictions adoptable in differing conditions by the Signatory Powers. Under the convention no such Power can adopt measures of a stringency in excess of those maxima without rendering its Goverment liable to protest from the other countries concerned. But it is open to each and all to adopt (as England has done) measures less stringent than the measures accepted of the Convention, provided always the Government adopting measures of minor stringency is prepared to be regarded as lax and dangerous in the matter of plague administration and prepared also to suffer in consequence disadvantage to its shipping trade at the hands of other nations.

Probably Mr Bell's attitude in the matter of

plague administration at Hong Kong is largely determined by the circumstance that the colony is and has long been

a plague-infected area. So long as Hong Kong retains

plague it is a matter of comparative indifference to

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