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always used what is described as number three
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Yes.
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But if you brought pressure to bear on them,
use a mixture of numbers two and three ?
they would
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Yes.
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From that I would infer that number one, and a good 17.384
deal of number two, never finds its way into building
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operations at all. What becomes of it?
It goes to the ceiling. It is in the tall baskets lined
with paper.
And mixed with a little number two, possibly
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No, they dont adulterate that. They sell it by bulk,
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and they sell as much air in it as they possibly can.
the
If they put any sand in, it would settle down,
whole mass of lime in the basket, and they would only
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get half a basket, and only be paid for half a basket. You mean the ceilings of better clars houses ?
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No,
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ordinary Chinese houses, just the same. They cant use the other.
Mr Shelton Hooper:
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17.387 Now, as to lime washing. Under the Ordinance, tenement
houses have to be ligewashed twice a year, and you know
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the sort of limewash which is used, and the way it is
put on here. Do you think that it is necessary to limewash all Chinese houses, irrespective of class,
twice a year?
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No.
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What would you suggest as an amendment to that present
regulation?
I would have everything in the house turned out, or
moved bodily once .month. I am only now trying to lay
down the laws of good house keeping. The object is to get rid of the cockroaches, I think, and vermin, and I would have all the corners dry brushed down, all
interra angles every re. I dont think myself that