CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6] — Page 228

No.

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Songkong.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

Sir,

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S APR 05

Government House,

Hongkong, 10th. March, 1905.

I have the honour to forward for your in- formation the enclosed copy of a Report by Lieutenant-Colonel #. B. Bannerman, M.D., I.M.S., Officiating Director-in-Chief of the Plague Research Laboratory, Bombay, upon experiments undertaken to discover whether the common domestic animals are affected by Plague. The report has been communicated to this Government by the Government of India.

2.

As deductions it embodies are at variance

with those set forth by Professor Simpson in his Report on the causes and continuance of Plague in Hongkong, I shall be glad if you will kindly invite Professor Simpson's observations with regard to Lieutenant-Colonel Bannerman's Report.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient

humble servant,

Mbation

Governor &c..

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

tc..

&c..

ko..

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