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Mr Shelton Hooper:-
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Did they not do the basement of your house ?
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No, the servants premises.
Is not that the basement ?
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Mr Pung Wa Chun-"
He has no basement.
Yr Shelton Hooper:
In fumigating did they not go to the basement of your
house, and the smoll came up through the house ?
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No, it was the servants quarters, and the smell came in.
The whole street smelt.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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RECORD OFFICE, LONDON OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH – NOT TO BE
Who do you do that?
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Because at a Meeting of the Sanitary Board in 1904, it was said that there were so many corpses dumped into the street. One of the Members of the Ranitary Foard said it was because the Chinese did not wish to spend the money, and they would not take the money to pay for the coffin, but threw the coryse out. Then I saw this,
I knew it was not the case. I had no proof about it though, so I advertised in the papers for whoever was poor to come to me, and they would get coffins. Then, if it was true what the Member of the "oard hɛd said, everybody would come to me for coffint, ind the bodies would not be throw out. I have carried this on for three years. I gave one away today. It is only that about ten to twenty persons in the course of a yaar ask for coffins. Put I knew that there were over 1,000 corpses dumped in the street in the course of a year. I wrote up to His Excellency the Governor, and Mr Brewin sent me back a reply thanking me for what I had done in
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this matter, and evan this would not prevent the people
dumping corpses.
Can you tell us the reason why the Chinase dɩmp the 1955-8
dead bodies ?
Because of the fumigation of houses. Partitions are torn
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