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B.

No.103

Hongkong.

Government House,

Hongkong, 11th. March, 1904.

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With reference to paragraph 2 of Mr.

Chamberlain's Despatch No. 216 of the 5th. June last, I have

the honour to inform you that the question of the causes of

and the possibility of reducing the large Chinese

infantile mortality in this Colony was referred by Sir Henry

Blake to a Committee, consisting of Dr. Atkinson, Principal

Civil Medical Officer, Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G., and Drs. Hunter,

Pearse, Jordan, and Herston.

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I have now to forward for your consider-

ation the valuable Report prepared by these gentlemen. With

regard to the second recommendation of the Committee, the

Principal Civil Medical Officer has stated that it was intended

fee

Enclosure 1. oth Novemba, 1908. copies per Book (Post.)

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to confine the payment of the $2 to cases of the registration

of Chinese births. Supposing the number of births at present

unregistered to be about half the total number of births, the

amount annually payable by Government in fees would be about

$2,950. The female visitors would entail an outlay of about

$1,080 per annum, supposing that three such visitors should

be engaged at $30 a month each. I doubted whether the expendi-

ture of this money would serve any really useful purpose and

suggested to the Principal Civil Medical Officer that it might

be THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,