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No.
6.
hongkong
Sir,
C.0.
4673
Ps 13 FF 05
Government House,
Hongkong, 13th, January,
50
1905.
1 herewith.
5 per Bock Post.
delay
I have to express my regret at the delay that has occurred in replying to Mn. Chamberlain's Circular despatch of the 7th. October 1903 on the desirability of spreading the elements of knowledge in tropical hygiene through schools in tropical Colonies, concerning which despatch your reminders of the 20th. May and the 18th. September 1904 were duly received.
2.
In reply to the second paragraph of the despatch
1 have the honour to state that no attempt has hitherto been made on lines similar to those adopted by Sir William Macgregor in Lagos to teach the rudiments of hygiene in this Colony, but that I consider school children can usefully be given such instruction and that the teachers of the Colony are competent to
impart it.
3. On receipt of the despatch steps were taken to draw up a syllabus of instruction but owing to the press of work during the following plague season this was not submitted by the then acting Medical Officer of Health till shortly after my arrival in the Colony. It did not commend itself to me as en- tirely satisfactory and the preparation of a revised scheme was put in hand on lines indicated by me to Dr. W. W. Pearse, M.B.
I now transmit 6 copies of the pamphlet drawn up by him to form the basis of instruction in Hygiene in the schools of Hongkong,
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.
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