CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913 — Page 346

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REC? REGE 3 MAY 13

55 Willow Brae Road, EDINBURGH,

2nd. May 1913

The Under Secretary of State,

Golonial Office,

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London, S.W.

I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your communi- cation, number 13774/1913, dated inst:, and thank you for the information given regarding the Commission of which I read a

notice inthe newspapers. The secretary's name, however,

not appear to be correctly given there, as I find no such name

as fidlan in the Colonial Office List.

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I have the honor to enclose copy of a letter to me from

Sir Henry Maxwell, and of my reply, bearing on the causation

of fevers &o.

I do not know if such evidence would be likely

to be received by the Commission,

1 was examined in Hong kong about 1866, by a Commission appointed by the Governor to enquire into the cause of an out-

brake of fever in that Colony on the previous year,

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your

ent servant

obedient

Firant J. Grant Smith

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