CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10] — Page 290

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REC 29 SEP 03

Goverment Hbliše;

Hongkong, 26th. August, 1903.

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I have the honour to inform you that a

Naval Hospital for infectious diseases erected at Morrison

Hill is about to be opened.

2.

The Principal Civil Ledical Officer on

the 19th. May called the attention of the Colonial Secretary

to the fact, and recommended that the Hospital shall not be

used as a Small-pox Hospital, but that the Naval Floating

Hospital the "Midge" should continue to be used for this

purpose. The enclosed correspondence will show that the Com-

mander-in-Chief has declined to accept the suggestion of the

Principal Civil Medical Officer and has ordered that the

Hospital he used for Small-pox cases.

3.

Against this decision I most earnestly

and strongly protest, and consider that if necessary legisla-

tion should be introduced to prevent it.

4.

No thing is more clearly established than

the danger of establishing a Small-pox Hospital within a short

distance of any considerable aggregation of persons. This is

shown in the minute of the Principal Civil Medical Officer of

closure 1.

2nd & 28th May,

August!

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,

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