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this happy immunity will always continue, for the process of saturation is slowly but surely going on and if unchecked cannot fail to bring forth abundant fruit in the form of misery and disease.
Statistics D. Ayres, on this point, gives (paragraph 847) which though confessedly, and necessarily, incomplete, show that the deaths, from diseases which may have arisen from filth-poison have, during the last six years, steadily increased; and he considers this increase a proof that there is something radically wrong somewhere in the condition of Hongkong, while he has every reason to believe much of it is caused by the foul and unwholesome state of the Chinese dwellings.
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Further, as to the alleged unwillingness of the Chinese to co-operate in schemes of sanitary reform, Mr. Chadwick (paragraph 277) says that on one point, viz., the dislike of the Chinese to official visits, the leading Chinese, applying their own feelings to the lower classes, considerably exaggerated the objection to such visits.
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