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difference also in the ventilation that is an 337
by the Chinese and Westerns, and the eating and
dwelling place is alsc different, and so, if the
Goverranent would make a distinction and be compassion.
ate to the people. Then, as to the rat catchers, they
go and trouble people, and there is no use in it. The:
go and give the bird lime for catching rats. They try
to squeeze the people, and I will tell you one
instance. They put some of the bird lime below a money
changers staff, and so the people put their feet there, and they stepped on it, and they were told not
to put it there, because the feet were constantly
coming in that place. "You must not touch it" said the man. "If you do, it wont be well for you". Then
Hong Hop Law went to the Branch office, and saw the
master at the Branch Office of the Sanitary Board,
and then the Inspector said "No, I did not send any
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man there with it", and the Inspector told the foreman
to go and take it back again, and some one came to
take it away. It was not onl; there, but it was also placed at the ranges for cooking rice, and it appears to me that even a coolie coming from the Sanitary
Board can act in such a bad way. Then these rat. catchers are so had, it should not be; and also the
drains, it is not convenient about the drains.
It used to be the case in Hongkong that the main drains, if there was any water at all, it all flowed away freely. I had a godown. On the other shops, it is
easy for the rain to run away, but this godown is a
big place, and the pipes were small, and when the rain water flowed down, they were filled, and the water
came up again, and the goods were wet.
Mr Fung Wa Chun:-
You mean they were flooded?
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