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whether the public has not also its rights which the former are bound to recognize where the preservation of life and health is at stake.
8. These leases have been granted when the Colony was young and little thought of Sanitation, but, as in other similar cases throughout the civilized world, it is only reasonable to suppose the purchasers of house property have been, or ought to have been prepared for fresh sanitary legislation, to meet public health requirements from time to time as the place grew and prospered, and the population became more and more congested, until the present alarming condition has been reached with every prospect of a still worse state of things, unless a remedy is at once applied.
If landlords of Chinese tenements can, true