CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10] — Page 189

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I have the beneur te inferu you that the Kopert of the Medical Department, Hong Kong, for the year 1928, sepies of which were forvarded in the Colonial Secretary' ( mote ne, 2165/1920 of the 10th September, 1926, une duly laid before the Colonial Advisory dedion) and Sanitary Jommittee.

2. The Committæ expressed the opinion that the serrukive portion of the sepert did not give a suffisiently clear review of the medical affairs of the Colony during the your, sad, shilst they fully appreciated the work involved in the properation of the statistical tables included in the soport, they sonsidered that many of those tables unsuitable for inclusion in an insual Medical soport. They expressed the bape that the model form of Medical «apart would be we slowly fellowed in future

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Committee were pleased to note that the Colony had sentimal to enjoy freedom from plague during the year under review, and they read with interest the sepert of the School Medical Officer, but nobod, with regret, the high proportion of children suffering from defestive vision, in this connection they enquirei ubekber the

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