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A. Yes, because I know the existing tender.
Q. You know the price?
A. Yes.
The Chairman.-And you are able to put in a tender lower than anybody else?
A. Yes, nobody else would know the price of the tender except the contractor, I of course know the price, and if I asked the man to lower his price a bit, he would certainly get it.
154. DR. W. W. PEARSE sworn :—
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-Do you consider that unnecessary worry has been given to the people in those disinfecting measures adopted by the Board ?
A. As we carry out the disinfection now, there may be perhaps unnecessary worry, but apart from that, the amount of unnecessary worry which is given now can be nothing compared with what it used to be, when the Board used to fumigate. That was absolutely unnecessary worry.
Q. Why do you say fumigation is utterly useless? I thought all medical men were in favour of fumigation.
A-Under certain conditions, I would fumigate. Now, if I wished to disinfect say some books or leather goods, yes, but fumigation of a Chinese house of itself is an absolute farce.
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Why?
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A. In the first place, before you can kill organisms by fumigation, you must stop up
all leaks.
Q-Hermetically seal them?
A. Yes, for a certain length of time.
Q.-Take Clayton's Fumigator. Is it necessary to hermetically seal the place first?
A. Yes.
Q. Do you know that has been disputed in documents laid before you from home?
A.-I have seen despatches from home by Professor Simpson.
Q.-Later than that?
A.-I have seen none later than that.
The Chairman.-What did Professor Simpson say?
A. That all Colonies should be supplied with Clayton's disinfecting apparatus. I wont say the building should be hermetically sealed, but your building should be so closed up, as
enable a certain percentage of the chlorine to act.