CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928 — Page 13

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Sir,

RECEIVED

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

2nd November, 1927.

HONGKONG.

1

With reference to your despatch No.85 of 4th

Gov19225/20 April, 1927, I have the honour to inform you that I am

forwarding under separate cover fifteen copies each of the Reports of the Medical and Sanitary Departments for the þyle year 1926 for the use of the Colonial Advisory Hedical and

Sanitary Committee.

In beleme

Wood ®

2.

It is hoped that these Reports read in conjunction will be found to give an adequate review of the medical affairs of the Colony during the year. A sketch-mep

of the Colony has been inserted in each report.

3.

I would however invite attention to the

25491/27mvernor's despatch No.129 of 16th March, 1927, on the

subject of the control of malaria in which he pointed out

that the circumstances of this Colony, situated on the sea

coast of a large Chinese province, were so exceptional that

vital statistics in respect of the Chinese population were

unreliable if not misleading.

In addition the European population of the Colony is attended largely by general practitioners so that

it is impossible to give in the Reports complete information

on the health of the European con unity.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C..S. ARY, P.,

&c.,

&c.,

&c.

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