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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG. 21st August, 1914.

is 81f I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No.137 of the 4th of June in which you summarise the advice of Sir Havelock Charles, G.C.V.O., Mr. C. J. Martin, M.B., D.Sc. of the Lister Institute and Professor W. J. R. Simp- son, C.M.G., upon the report of the Medical Officer of Health on the causes of epidemics of plague in Hongkong which was sent to 1551f you in my despatch No.113 of the 7th of April.

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2.

With reference to paragraph 3 of your despatch under reply I wish to explain that infected rats in small numbere are found throughout the year in Hongkong and in comparatively large numbers during the months of March, April, May and June; and that the examination and destruction of rats in the areas in which such infected rats are found is a regular part of the administrative routine of the Sanitary Department throughout the

year.

3.

With regard to paragraph 4 of your despatch, it is not clear whether the gentlemen whose advice you took mean that a wholesale destruction of rats throughout the City should be organised as soon as the first cases of plague in human beinga occur, or whether they agree with the view that the destruction of rats should be concentrated around the infected foci. In this connection I would refer you to my despatch No.156 of the 74 4th of May in which I forwarded a further report by Dr. Clark

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT. M.P.,

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