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broke away they would carry the disease to various parts of the country. As a case in point it may be mentioned that an escape actually took place on a previous occasion whilst diseased persons were being transported from the barracks for re-embarkation on board the "Michael Ibsen". It will be seen therefore, that no expulsion of Chinese subjects from Mexican territory took place, but merely a re-embarkation of immigrants who had been placed under observation in the barracks, after confirmation of the existence of suspected disease.
One of the arguments most strongly insisted upon by persons who carried their complaints to the British and Chinese Legations arose out of the assumption that only one of the Delegates visited the China Commercial Company's vessels. The complainants have further expressed doubt as to the competence of the Delegate as an expert in the diagnosis of trachoma; they have assumed him to be a pupil of Dr. Grone, of Hong Kong, and have laid stress on the disagreement between his diagnosis of cases, and that of the two doctors from the City of Mexico, who were sent by the China Commercial Company to Salina Cruz.
In respect to the first point, I have already previously explained that there are two Medical Delegates in Salina Cruz; that both of them perform the visits of inspection, and that they carry out the regulations of the Law, and the orders of the Board in mutual agreement.
As regards the second point, I have to inform you that the first Delegate in Salina Cruz, after having studied trachoma here in Mexico, with a specialist in the disease, went to Europe with the object of perfecting his studies of all diseases with which Chinese immigrants are likely to be affected, and subsequently continued the same in many places where Asiatic immigration is rife, such as Colombo, Singapore, Malacca, Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, Shanghai, Kobe, Nagasaki, and Yokohama. In these places collectively he had the opportunity of studying trachoma in about ten thousand different cases. These studies have enabled him to write a treatise on the subject, in which he has described with great exactitude the various stages of the disease, from its first inception.
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broke away they would carry the disease to various parts
of the country. As a case in point it may be mentioned
that an escape actually took place on a previous occasion
whilst diseased persons were being transported from the
barracks for re-embarkation on board the "Michael Ibsen".
It will be seen therefore, that no expulsion of
Chinese subjects from Mexican territory took place, but
merely a re-embarkation of immigrants who had been placed
under observation in the barracks, after confirmation
of the existence of suspected disease.
One of the arguments most strongly insisted upon
by persons who carried their complaints to the British
and Chinese Legations arose out of the assumption that
only one of the Delegates visited the China Commercial
Company's vessels. The complainants have further ex-
pressed doubt as to the competence of the Delegate as
an expert in the diagnosis of trachoma; they have as-
sumed him to be a pupil of Dr. Grone, of Hong Kong, and
have laid stress on the disagreement between his diag-
nosis of cases, and that of the two doctors from the
City of Mexico, who were sent by the China Commercial
Company to Salina Cruz.
In respect to the first point, I have already
previously explained that there are two Medical Dele-
gates in Salina Cruz; that both of them perform the
visits of inspection, and that they carry out the re-
gulations of the Law, and the orders of the Board in
mutual agreement.
As regards the second point, I have to inform
you that the first Delegate in Salina Cruz, after
having studied trachoma here in Mexico, with a spec-
ialist in the disease, went to Europe with the object
of perfecting his studies of all diseases with which
Chinese immigrants are likely to be affected, and sub-
sequently continued the same in many places where
Asiatic immigration is rife, such as Colombo, Singa-
pore, Malacca, Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, Shanghai,
Kobe, Nagasaki, and Yokohama. In these places col-
lectively he had the opportunity of studying trachoma
in about ten thousand different cases. These studies
have enabled him to write a treatise on the subject,
in which he has described with great exactitude the
various stages of the disease, from its first incep-
In
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