258
14.
the statements alluded to, as accurate information concerning Colonial matters in the Colony is obtainable from the Office List and recent published reports on the drainage and water supply of Hong Kong and Kowloon.
I, however, desire to place on record that though I offered to give him any information in my power, Dr Wilm never once applied to me for any information whatever with reference to the drainage and water supply of the Colony and that I made such a careful investigation into the system of drainage that the public sewers or "slop water system of drains" as he terms it, were found not to justify the statement that they "frequently become stopped up, and, being leaky, allow filthy water to escape into the houses".
5.
The whole of the public sewers have been carefully laid and tested before the trenches have been filled in, and I consider such a statement as that contained in the last paragraph on page 23 respecting the "slop water system of drains" ought never to have been made without the fullest investigation.