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a exercise and breeding ground for rats. In a Chinese town
Chinese town - Shame
bird in excreta; everything should
be open. Night-soil and garbage be removed by buckets daily.
Storm
Water drains of solid granite with substantial and efficient cron flaps
might
and gratings impassable to rats be installed if
maintained in good
order, but they must not be inaccessible to rats. All drains and all houses
without
drains should be trapped to prevent
Exception. Rats do not harbour in the Storm drains, but they do lodge within the floors of houses and warehouses:
all such should have
walls laid with granite or damp-proof course; no insanitary condition should be permitted in Chinese
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