CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6] — Page 580

18 mouths old.

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10/9/18

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42026

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As the Gov. wishes specially to bring this to the

S. of S.'s notice: I think we should proceed as Mr.

Beckett proposes.

I agree with Mr. Fiddian on 42630, but I thin

Mr. Woodman might be noted for transfer to a

warmer climate: outside the:W.Indies. The chance :

of being able to move him is however remote.

Noted

CH

At once:

Arc

10.9.18

Sir,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG. 29th. June, 1918.

I have the honour to furnish the following! brief report on the epidemic of small-pox which occurred in this Colony during the cool season 1916-1917.

2.

Dr. W. J. Woodmen took over the office of Medical Officer of Health in July, 1916. He found that a large number of cases of small-pox had occurred in the early months of the year and that cases were still occurring. He foresaw the probability of a severe outbreak of the disense as soon as the weather should become cold. On studying the record of vaccinations he found that fewer had been performed in 1915 than in any year since 1905, he therefore wrote to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs asking him to move the Chinese Public Dispensaries and the Tung Wa Hospital to endeavour to get more people vaccinated. When small-pox began to increase in the month of November he again approached the Secretary for Chinese Affairs who put him in to communication with Mr. S. W. Tso, Chairman of the Committee of the Chinese

Public Dispensary for the Western District of the City of

Victoria, which was the district most affected,

3.

Mr. Tso at once offered to help to the utmost of his ability if certain concessions were made, the

principal of which was that in dwellings in which the Chinese

submitted

RIGHT HONOURABLE

WALTER LONG, M.P.,

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