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that so far there has been nothing to show that the
fiction of amotion is being used to evade
responsibility i posed by the laws regarding the
ui-tsai and there would appear to be at the moment
10 necessity to take action on this particular
AZounJ8.
Finally, if sir John Simon foll wa the
Haclewoods, he may raise the matter of dead boules
found in the hong kong streets with the implication
that there is some connection with the Kui-tagi
question.
The number of unknown dead boaies
found by the police in the streets and elsewhere in
the last five years are as follows:-
1928. 1926. 1987
1926
1929.
Chiluren.
1136
1020
1165
1516
1851
Adults.
345
94
3132
164
182
Ample facilities are provided by Goverment for free burial of destitute persons and the question
of dumping boules in the street cannot. in the majority of uses be accounted for by mure poverty
and ignorance. So far as boules o: auults are
concerned, there is little douot that the primary object is to escape roal or feared inconvenience
from disinfectione
of the preriaus by the senitary
Department. This view is borne out by the fact
that a considerable proportion of bo.ius found
are those of persons who have died of smallpox. The
true
ease would appear to be in the case of children
to a. even greater degree.
The death rate an
the