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No. 357...

Hongkong

Enclosure 1.

(Book Post)

Government House,

5745

607

* 2 NO. J

Hongkong, 30th September, 1904,

Sir,

I have the honour to transmit under separate cover six copies of a paper by Dr. W. Hunter, the Government Bacteriologist, entitled 'A Research into Epidemic and Epizootic Plague' with a preface written by Dr. J. M. Atkinson, Principal Civil Medical Officer.

2. The Report, though ill-arranged, is a valuable one containing much original matter.

3. The most important points it brings out are that men are most easily infected through the food assimilating parts of the body; that inferior qualities of rice, such as form the staple food of the coolie or pauper class of Chinese who supply the large number of cases during an epidemic, have been found to contain plague bacilli in considerable numbers; and that food can be infected by direct contact with any plague-infected material or by flies, cockroaches, etc., which have been in contact with such material and carry plague bacilli on their body surfaces to food or to the utensils in which food is prepared.

4. The report tends to correct previous over-estimates

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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

Ecc

800.+

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No. 357... Hongkong Enclosure 1. (Book Post) Government House, 5745 607 * 2 NO. J Hongkong, 30th September, 1904, Sir, I have the honour to transmit under separate cover six copies of a paper by Dr. W. Hunter, the Government Bacteriologist, entitled 'A Research into Epidemic and Epizootic Plague' with a preface written by Dr. J. M. Atkinson, Principal Civil Medical Officer. 2. The Report, though ill-arranged, is a valuable one containing much original matter. 3. The most important points it brings out are that men are most easily infected through the food assimilating parts of the body; that inferior qualities of rice, such as form the staple food of the coolie or pauper class of Chinese who supply the large number of cases during an epidemic, have been found to contain plague bacilli in considerable numbers; and that food can be infected by direct contact with any plague-infected material or by flies, cockroaches, etc., which have been in contact with such material and carry plague bacilli on their body surfaces to food or to the utensils in which food is prepared. 4. The report tends to correct previous over-estimates THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P., Ecc 800.+
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No. 357... ongkong dlosure 1. Book Post) Government House, 5745 607 * 2 NO. J Hongkong, 30th. September, 1904, sir, I have the honour to transmit under separate cover six copies of a paper by Dr. W. Hunter the Government Bacteriologist entitled 'A Research into Epidemic and Epizootic Plague' with a preface written by Dr. J. M. Atkinson, Principal Civil Medical Officer. 2. The Report, though ill-arranged, is a valu- able one containing much original matter. 3. have The most important points it brings out are that men are most easily infected through the food assimi- lating parts of the body; that inferior qualities of rice such as form the staple food of the coolie or pauper class of Chinese who supply the large number of cases during an epidemic, heen found to contain plague bacilli in considerable numbers; and that food can be infected by direct contact with any plague infected material or by flies, cockroaches, etc., have been in contact with such material and carry plague bacilli on their body surfaces to food or to the utensils in which food is prepared, 4. that The report tends to correct previous over- -estimates THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P., Ecc 800.+
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No. 357...

ongkong

dlosure 1.

Book Post)

Government House,

5745

607

* 2 NO. J

Hongkong, 30th. September, 1904,

sir,

I have the honour to transmit under separate

cover six copies of a paper by Dr. W. Hunter the Government

Bacteriologist entitled 'A Research into Epidemic and Epizootic

Plague' with a preface written by Dr. J. M. Atkinson, Principal

Civil Medical Officer.

2.

The Report, though ill-arranged, is a valu-

able one containing much original matter.

3.

have

The most important points it brings out

are that men are most easily infected through the food assimi- lating parts of the body; that inferior qualities of rice such as form the staple food of the coolie or pauper class of Chinese

who supply the large number of cases during an epidemic, heen found to contain plague bacilli in considerable numbers;

and that food can be infected by direct contact with any

plague infected material or by flies, cockroaches, etc.,

have been in contact with such material and carry plague

bacilli on their body surfaces to food or to the utensils in

which food is prepared,

4.

that

The report tends to correct previous over- -estimates

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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

Ecc

800.+

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