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1941.
a solution of caust
light, but washing
leansing, would th
Dr Clark sal
would not improve the alls down and thoroughly
not be more efficacious?
I dont think it would be more efficacious, and you would have great difficulty with your workmen and tenants, on account of the burning of their feat and hands with the caustic soda. You would practically make the place unhabitable for a time. It is very
a trong caustic sodak.
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The Chairman:-
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Would it be more expensive ?
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I dont suppose it would be more expensive than
1 imewashing.
Humphreys:-
A.
It is, if it were strong.
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Chairman:-
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A.
I dont think it would be so good, bacause I look upon limewash as one of the ways of keeping those dark rooms a bit lighter. Really, the effect is very great. It may not last two months or three months, but it does have a marked effect, and of course it is the tenants that are to blame if it gets dirty. The tenants smother the ceilings with smoke, when they light their lamps, and they wont use the chinhoy shafts when they are cooking with their chattie. That is at the bottom of a great deal of this.
Do you remember sometime ago, the Goverment used to 15.958 undertake the limewashing. They had a Government contract
They undertook the linewashing of plague infected houses at so much a floor.
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Do you remember the conditions of the contract
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There were no special conditions.
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Do you know how much the man got a floor ?
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A.
It was' $2 a floor.
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It was #2.50 ae a matter of fact.
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A.
$2.50, and there wan some stipulation that he had to