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but Phughing.
1937.
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and all the another and bother that was occasioned led
to an increase of plague.
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I dont suggest for a moment that limewashing increases
plague. What I want to know is: Does it reduce itin
any way ? For instance, we have had houses quite
recently limewashed, and cases of plague have occurred
in them.
Yes, but that does not shew that limewashing has any
effect because they might have been imported.
15.932 Did not the Government of India in their report almost
hint that the fact of a house being recently limewashed
one doas --- Would you not gather by reading the
report of the Indian Government that linewashing waS
not of very much use as a plague preventor ↑
Yes,
but I dont look upon that report you are referring
to as by any means a final report. That neither decider
hów plague is spread nor the best means of combatting
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Yes, but it rather strengthens it, rat fleas as
being one of the greatest'agencies of spreading plague,
and it also suggests certain measures for combatting
plague, and amongst the measures, limewashing does not
occur.
That is 30.
And that report is very much more definite than any 154:4
report ever made by anyone in Hongkong on the subject ?
And I should say the Government of India, with their
experience in Bombay, have had very much greater
facilities, they have had more doctors and they have
had cleverer mun, and they are in a very much better
position to give an opinion than anybody in Hongkong .
Therefore I think we ought to give a very great deal of
it.
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