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· EXTRACT FROM THE FINUTES OF THE 179th LEETING OF THE COLONIAL

ADVISORY LEDICAL AND SANITARY COMITTEE

(9) Hr. Beckett represented the Far Eastern Department during the discussion of the Annual Medical

Almorandu

and Sanitary Reports of Bong Kong for the year 1923. The Medical Secretary's report on tafseReport met

with general concurrence.>

Megtical

Fith reference to page 8 of the report General Bevericge drew attention to the fact that marmite was useful for preventing beri-beri and not only in treating the disease.

(The Committee recomended that attention

should be drawn to this point.

(At this stage Sir H. Read returned and took

the chair.)

diti reference to the returns of de:th from plague the Committee recommended that in future the various kinds of plague should be differentiated

Both the edical and Sanitary Reports were highly commended by the Committee.

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