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Camp, Kowloon.
5th June 1901.
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To the Principal Medical Officer,
China and Hongkong,
Sir,
In continuation of my report on the sanitation of the village of Funghom, I have the honour to now submit the following report on the drainage system of that village as on the previous occasion I had not an opportunity to fully examine it. I inspected yesterday, accompanied by a representative of the Public Works Department.
The house drains are intended for slops, washing water and waste house water only. The slops &c., run from a sloping floor into a cemented channel along the side of the cook rooms discharging through the wall of the house over an open hopper head of a downpipe. There is no direct connection. This downpipe discharges into a gutter at the road side being likewise disconnected. The arrangement is so far good. These gutters in turn discharge into the sewers and are trapped at entrance. The smaller sewers discharge into the