CO129-509-6 Recruitment of Chinese labour in Hong Kong for work in North Borneo and Spanish guinea... 27-3-1928 - 27-12-1928 — Page 27

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4. I am informed by the Chief Medical Officer that the

new and well-equipped laboratories and Centre for

Research in Santa Isabel (F.Poo) is practically completed.

The number of patients in the Sleeping Sickness

Concentration Camp has diminished greatly, and I understand

that only shout 200 are at present under treatment.

idea of making Elobey Taland a segregation camp for natives

suffering from this disease has not been abandoned, and I

believe that in the early part of the coming year the first

ship-load will be sent there.

I have, etc.

(Signed) C.H. Chew.

The

Vice-Consul.