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Mr. Shelton Hooper. The loss is therefore about 20 per cent.?
A. We will say 20.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-That means in 1904, you used to get $10 a floor say, you are only getting $7 or $8 ?
A. Yes.
and now
Mr. Shelton Hooper. Now, do you think that that reduction is on account of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance having been passed?
A. I suspect it is that.
The Chairman.-Why, because you have had to give up your cubicles, or what?
A. Yes.
Q.-Principally because you have had to abolish cubicles ?
A.-Mostly that. Well, the Sanitary Board does this for the sanitation, but then when people are not able to have these cubicles, then it is difficult for them to be sanitary.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.--Why?
A. With poor people, there are several people living on a floor. wash their bodies, it is easier for them to do so if they have cubicles. for them if they have no cubicles, for they have no bathroom.
Well, if they wish to It is more difficult
Mr. Shelton Hooper. And therefore they dont wash themselves, and keep themselves so clean as they used to ?
A.-Well, it is more difficult to wash yourself, if you have not got a cubicle.
Q. And the consequence is that the people of Hongkong' are not so clean to-day as they were before ? I am speaking of the lower class, of course.
A.-Well, if there are no cubicles partitioned off, then it is so.
The Chairman.Is there anything else you wish to speak about ?
A.-Well, there seems a great many things to me that are hardships, but perhaps you are thinking I am saying too much.
Q.-Roughly, Mr. Li, you might give us just the outline.
The Interpreter.-He says he wants to say more about the cubicles.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-Well, let him say it.
The Chairman.-Well, about the cubicles, Mr. Li ?
A.—I wish you to understand tlrat what I am saying is not for any benefit for myself. It is for the people.