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Q.-Suppose there were patients suffering on arrival what would you do with them?
A.-Segregate them; send them to the hospital; disinfect the ship and set her free with the other passengers after twenty-four hours' observation.
Q.—As to small-pox. What do you say about cases of small-pox :?
A.-I would not detain those who were not sick, only those who were suffer- ing from the disease.
Q. How about those suspected of being infected ?
A. Yes, those who had fever I would detain.
Q.-Would you keep those who were suspected, until observation could be
made?
A.--Yes.
Q.-How long would you detain them?
A. For three days.
Q.-Not longer than that?
A.-No.
Q.-Would liberty to go ashore?
you detain any
of those who were well, or would you give them
A.—I would give them liberty to go ashore.
The Colonial Surgeon.
Q.-Have you ever seen cholera or choleraic cases at Hongkong?
A. Yes.
Q.-Have you ever seen or heard of any case which could be directly attributed to contagion or infection from another case?
A.-No.
The Chairman.
Q.-Do I understand you to say that if a death occurred on board a ship 12 hours before her arrival, that you would not keep the persons who were well on board?
A.-No, I would not.
Q.-You would only detain her to disinfect?
A.-Yes.
Q.-That is your medical opinion?
A. Yes.
The Colonial Surgeon.
Q. That is excluding any consideration for the benefit of the ship as regards other ports it was going to, where it might suffer severe quarantine?
A. Yes, that is another consideration.
Q.-You would let the passengers go at once in the case of small-pox?
A. Yes, as soon as the sufferers were removed and the ship disinfected. Dr. GERLACH then withdrew.
The Chairman thought that they had almost sufficient evidence to proceed at their next meeting with the drafting of their report. Perhaps, however, they might take the opinion of Mr. KESWICK upon the question from a shipowner's view. The Chamber of Commerce had expressed itself opposed altogether to quarantine regulations.
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