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hole sunk in the ground with a machine-pounding rice is it, opposite to the doorway of a
for
which could not be called a room as it was not more!
Leven
than
to contain
w feet square, and
which were a
bas
only just large enough bed in which a family slept and underneath
lot of pigs-
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guilly with as name, one end opening into Baine Road just below D. Adam's house, the other end into Market Street. This gorlly is floored with a platform of board, raised about two feet above the ground, the with below is sodden with black liquid filth and underneath this foot way,
Lonto are kept which afterwards go to the market. In houses here are
cramped up little houdh with filthy floors, and the inhabitants are licensed to
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ten lacks.
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kup at that Saiging Poon is a wide struct in which the Lonces look well from the front. Tegs kept of come. At the Back of these honees are gully of the fontect des-cription. The stenchs from which in horrible.
room
Wor On Lane, a gully at the back of, and composed of the basement floors of 3rd Street, nearly every Reset pigs,
there being nearly a hundred in the place. could not stay to inspect it properly, as the stench dasve. ・ome out reteking.
These
Places taken from different quarters of the Lower
are quite sufficient to illustrate what I have said. An intimate
acquaintance in the course
of
my student
of
lift in Hospital practice with the worst quarter
Lambelt,
fight for water bitions at the
unds in dry
Lambeth, St Giles and Somers Town enables one to
in
e.s
I do not believe there could be found in London!
say worse places than
are to be found in Hongkong, if bad and in Indian town filth of the description found here would not be permitted by the carte of the inhabitants.
Here the people inhabiting these places
are not
to poverty stricken, they wear good clother and pay high rents indeed cxxorbitant rents and nowwhere have found anything approaching to the poverty
I've seen in London or India. Few European residents of this generally cappoced clean town: know of or would believe the
or would believe the things I have brought
to notice in this and the report of the Brothels and it in no wonder under the circumstances in their ignorance they think the town is clean enough and more water is not required, seeing as they do only the best quarters or those that are fair enough onterde but fout within and behind
onany places the people have to
5 go long. they get it from fout well. so that they harn "much as possible, not because they don't want it, but because it is a great deal
water or
to do without it
to prepare. Thy
a.s
distance.
great deal of trouble, They never wash or clean the floor of their houses because the constination of the floor does not
admit
it, so water is not used in this
of it
msay.
I am of opinion that in the town there is no fit
or proper placed for pigs to be sept at all and this at all events should not be cauctioned by Government but that fl.
chould be found out of
"town or over at
Kowloon