20
21
Military assistance to aid_ in the work of House to House Visitation and cleansing, and
he was
good enough to detail
from
1. for that work 12 men - the Royal Engineers and sub-
sequently 17 Rifle Brigade and 3 Non-
men
from the
commissioned Officers, who
are
cheerfully performing their difficult work in a
manner.
most efficient. They are being remunerated
at the same rate as that.
fixed
·
30
fixed in 1894.
The search party visits
12.
and inspects each Chinese house in the Colony about once in every ten days, and from the 25th February to the 21st April no fewer than 3,200 houses comprising 8,330 flows, each floor forming, with few exceptions, a separate dwelling
thoroughly cleansed, disinfected, and in many cases also limewashed by the "Whitewash Brigade." "The
were