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With regard to limewashing, Mr Osborne, I understand
that your opinion is that limewashing is absolutely
ineffectumi as a germicide ↑
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Quite, because I think it is not proper limewash.
But dealing with such limewash as the Colony produces,
and as is used here ↑
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Your suggestion or counter proposal is that the houses
should be cleansed once a month. Dont you think that
would press rather hardly on a large number of Chinese,
to have their rooms turned out once a month, to have
everything put out of the room on to the street, and
the room swept and garnished ↑
It is only a matter of half an hour's preparation or
an hour's.
This is a matter we have devoted a great deal of 18005~
attention to, and on which we have examined many
witnesses, and I think the consecus of opinion is that the limewashing is not of itself a preventative and cure for sickness, but it has this advantage that twice a year the house has to be cleansed out, and that that alone is the only justification for the lime- washing. That is done twice a year, and your proposal
is that it should be done twelve times a year.
My observation is that the limewashing is not done twice
a year properly. It is simply splashed on to the
interiors of the rooms, and the corners and dirty
places are not limewashed at all.
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has occurred ?
I can only mentios from what I see, principally in
Kowloon and Yawati, That is to say, the work is not
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done thoroughly.
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