of gratings and the breaking of traps and downpipes for the purpose of forcing down and through the drains refuse which should have been swept up from the floors of kitchens instead of being washed into the down drain pipes over and through the gratings in the yards below and so into the trups connected with the underground drains and that by a large waste of fresh house water from the water taps at the present time brought into nearly very Chinese kitchen throughout the bolony-
24. It has been no fault of Your Petitioner that the Plaque visited the houses 17 Pottinger and 30 Chinese Streets._. The spedemic having attacked both the better and lower dass Chinese. The house 32 Raya Central referred to is one of the best class Chinese hous:s and could with but slight outlay be again adapted for Eure pean occupation. Still in that house arul in similar class houses in the neighbourhood and in a street known as Bonham Fraud West which street is solely occupied by the principal Chinese Merchants the Plague attacked the orcupants and as it would appear at au Parlier dats than in the Taipingshan district.
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25. The Irriguese Colony of Macao had daily communication with both Counton and Hongkong during the prevalence of the plague and inconsequence hadudditional reason in being affected by it but few cases occurring there would in itself show there was a cause for such plaque being so rife here and that cause as appears to Your Retitioner being the insanitary condition of the Chinese portion of the brity, but that @currs of property should be made to suffer for the consequences seems to Your Petitioner altogether unwarranted, 26. Your Petitioner has been a large loser internts by of many of his kenants having left their holdings during the time of the plague" without payment of rents then due and subsequently by having many shops and floors unlet and still unbet.
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27. Your Petitioner is of opinion there was no greater need for the resumption of the Tripingshan District further than for whole streets.
sof house's both adjacent to and distant from that district where the Plague raged unless it be the authorities dicided such resumption for other reasons and as Your Petitioner can but conclude.
28. Your
Petitioner having paid the Rates for the said two houses 17 Pottinger and 30 Chinese Freets as demanded of him during the fariod such houses were vacant contends he has a right to be reimbursed by the Government for the losses he has sustained by reason of his tenants wiction.