CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10] — Page 496

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3.

arrival in Hongkong, nearly

491

six

years ago,

I took up the question from this particular stand point, and since then have carried out, from time to tume, and throughout

various spidemics, a

large Number of

Experiments which bear directly upon this special subject.

In 1902 I was in Hongkong when Professor Simpson carried out his plapses rxperiments. He Yes

a boost varied series of animals- -oven, sheep, pigs, fowls, rats, Etc, - with

human tissues and cultures teeming with

been

already

B. pestis. His results have made Known to science in his "Report on t the causes and continuance of Plague in! Hongkong, 1903" and in his ficellent treatise on Plage published in 1905.

there would appear to be aw Element of scepticism in the minds of many plagne specialists as to the exact value of these Experiments, and the proper interpretation to put upon them. As I was a witness to most of them,

the following remain

...may.