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Ventilation and now that they
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are carried with the sea under the new reclaimed
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to current of air pets with these trans and if it does there is so little ventilation that it can't get out.
The present reclamation has been going on and you will doubtless remember the inspecting fence finding of some of these old drains has actually occurred in the West part of the city and in my opinion had much to do with the plague of 1894.
I respectfully submit the following facts: 1. The plague always commences after a long absence of rain: viz. about February.
2. That rats are known to be largely responsible for its distribution with the spread of the disease - however the question arises to me how do the rats ...?
This I have endeavoured to explain in paragraph 1.
It will also be admitted that flies & mosquitoes would also carry & disseminate the poison.
3. That the plague this year has shown itself most painfully amongst the Europeans occupying premises in Queens Road Central. The plague always occurs after a long absence of rain. Kind of Epidemic has occurred in the central district this year that occurred in Taipingshan & the West district in 1894.
4. Health soon after the heavy rains came the disease in its virulent form is abated.
This in my opinion is accounted for by storm channels & their connections not being flushed and washed naturally they ...
Either some death poisonous, some poisonous fungus or passi ... which dries after no dampness for months gives off powder or microbe which possibly affects the rats - and they rushing out terrorized make their way through the old drains into the houses and so describe the way through the poison.
It is evident that after the heavy rains come & these drains are filled with damp air that it lays the dust or poisonous gas until the dry season ...
These storm Channels have occurred in Kowloon and in my opinion the cause is the paucity of the dryness of the drains and the utter absence of adequate arrangement for flushing them in the dry seasons.
I respectfully submit, sir, that what is required for Hong Kong & Kowloon is a series of small sea water flushes in the higher levels- which should be regularly and daily filled with sea water by means of pumps & that this sea water should be allowed to flow down the streets & thus into the drains at the higher levels for an hour or two every ...