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that one might be purchased for use here. All the correspondence was sent out here, and the Government,
on the advice of Dr Pearse, decided that it would not be suitable for this place, and no order has been given
for it. I think that is what you are referring to.
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Do you know how the idea originated, to get this
apparatus ?
15.912
A.
No, I cant say.
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Didnt the question arise in the first place before you
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actually left Hongkong?
A.
Yes, I have said so.
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Didnt the idea originate with Inspector Reidie ? Oh, he may have ahem me, because he was a great reader, and a great man for collecting pries lists and illustrated catalogues, and things of that sort, and very probably he showed me ṣome of those illustrations. But you dont remember that that was ac, or not ↑ Yes, I think it is more than probable.
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Shelton Hooper:
Do you know Dr Pearse's reasons. what were set out for his objections, why he took a different view to you
about the Clayton apparatus ?
A.
He thought that the buildings of Hongkong had so many
that openings to them, were so imperfectly constructed,
the gas would 1 ak out too fast for it to be of any
effect as a disinfectant.
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Haunt you since the month of April of this year written
to dlayton's people calling attention to that,
and
asking for th ir remarks thereon ?
A.
I have written to them by the instructions of the Government to ask if they had any satisfactory reports
on the use of the Clayton apparatus, for houses, becaus all the correspondence I had related to ships, and the
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