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No. 342

Hongkong.

CO 517/36000

16th September, 1904.

25762

Referring to your Despatch No. 227 dated the 28th July and to previous correspondence on the subject of the treatment of small-pox patients in the Naval Infectious Diseases Hospital, I have the honour to suggest that the arbitration which has been approved should not take place but that the Admiralty should be informed that this Government will raise no objection to the use for small-pox patients of their new building at Morrison Hill except in the case of an epidemic when more than 10 men require to be treated at one time.

2. I make this suggestion in the first place as I do not consider that the opinion of a third Officer can be looked upon as satisfactorily deciding a scientific question in which two Officers, both having full knowledge of the circumstances, hold divergent views.

3. I am also doubtful of the expediency of generally enforcing in Hongkong the principles as regards sites for small-pox hospitals enunciated in the memorandum issued by the Local Government Board in London in 1902. If these principles are not acted on in every case it is obviously not...

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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

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No. 342 Hongkong. CO 517/36000 16th September, 1904. 25762 Referring to your Despatch No. 227 dated the 28th July and to previous correspondence on the subject of the treatment of small-pox patients in the Naval Infectious Diseases Hospital, I have the honour to suggest that the arbitration which has been approved should not take place but that the Admiralty should be informed that this Government will raise no objection to the use for small-pox patients of their new building at Morrison Hill except in the case of an epidemic when more than 10 men require to be treated at one time. 2. I make this suggestion in the first place as I do not consider that the opinion of a third Officer can be looked upon as satisfactorily deciding a scientific question in which two Officers, both having full knowledge of the circumstances, hold divergent views. 3. I am also doubtful of the expediency of generally enforcing in Hongkong the principles as regards sites for small-pox hospitals enunciated in the memorandum issued by the Local Government Board in London in 1902. If these principles are not acted on in every case it is obviously not... THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
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No. 342 Hokong. wo sir, CO 517 36000 IS OCT Goverment House, Hongkong, 16th. September, 1904. 25762 Referring to your Despatch No. 227 dated the 28th. July and to previous correspondence on the subject of the treatment of small-pox patients in the Naval Infectious Diseases Hospital, I have the honour to suggest that the arbitration which has been approved should not take place but that the Admiralty should be informed that this Government will raise no objection to the use for small-pox patients of their new bulling at Morrison Hill except in the case of an epidemic when more than 10 men require to be treated at one time. 2. I make this suggestion in the first place as I do not consider that the opinion of a third Officer can be looked upon as satisfactorily deciding a scientific question in which two Officers, both having full knowledge of the circum -- stances, hold divergent views. 3. I am also doubtful of the expediency of generally enforcing in Hongkong the principles as regards sites for small-pox hospitals enunciated in the memorandum issued by the Local Government Board in London in 1902. If these principles are not acted on in every case it is obviously no t THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
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No. 342

Hokong.

wo

sir,

CO 517 36000

IS OCT

Goverment House,

Hongkong, 16th. September,

1904.

25762

Referring to your Despatch No. 227 dated

the 28th. July and to previous correspondence on the subject

of the treatment of small-pox patients in the Naval Infectious

Diseases Hospital, I have the honour to suggest that the

arbitration which has been approved should not take place but

that the Admiralty should be informed that this Government

will raise no objection to the use for small-pox patients of

their new bulling at Morrison Hill except in the case of an

epidemic when more than 10 men require to be treated at one

time.

2.

I make this suggestion in the first place

as I do not consider that the opinion of a third Officer can

be looked upon as satisfactorily deciding a scientific question

in which two Officers, both having full knowledge of the circum --

stances, hold divergent views.

3.

I am also doubtful of the expediency of

generally enforcing in Hongkong the principles as regards

sites for small-pox hospitals enunciated in the memorandum

issued by the Local Government Board in London in 1902. If

these principles are not acted on in every case it is obviously

no t

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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

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