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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29ra JULY, 1899.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. —No. 423.

The following despatch, with its enclosure, is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th July, 1899.

Hongkong. No. 112.

SIR,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

DOWNING STREET,

20th June, 1899.

I have the honour to transmit to you, for your information, a copy of the despatch noted below, respecting the Quarantine measures adopted at Alexandria against arrivals from Hongkong and Kurrachee.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

Your most obedient humble Servant,

EDWARD WINgfield,

for the Secretary of State.

Date.

Description of Document.

2nd June, 1899.

From II.M. Minister at Alexandria, with 1st enclosure.

No. 29. Commercial.

My Lord,

ALEXANDRIA,

2nd June, 1899. -

I have the honour to forward herewith copies of two reports by Dr. MORRISON; the first concern- ing measures adopted against Hongkong and Kurrachee, and the second* respecting the manner in which the medical inspection of passengers and crews of vessels leaving Egypt is carried out.

The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

I have, &c.,

(Signed) E. B. Gould.

SIR,

ALEXANDRIA,

31st May, 1899.

I have the honour to draw your attention to the fact, that in consequence of the existence of plague at Hongkong it was decided on 29th May to apply to arrivals from that port the règlement against plague.

I beg also to inform you that in consequence of the existence in epidemic form of cholera at Kurrachee, the Commission Permanente of the Board decided to draw the attention of the Medical Officers at Suez to the matter. The plague regulations are in force against Kurrachee. These regu- lations are much more severe than those against cholera, so that it was quite enough to warn our doctors at Suez to be on the outlook for possible cholera cases coming from Kurrachee.

E. B. GOULD, Esq.,

Her Britannic Majesty's Consul General.

*Not printed.

I have, &c.,

(Signed) ARTHUR MORRISON.