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Which is opened by a Chinese olerk ↑
Yes, a native olerk.
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that houses are to be examined, the list goes to the Secretary?
Yes. The Assistant Secretary makes out a warrant, and the P. C. M. 0. signs it with the date blank, and the
papers go back, not to the Senior Inspector, but to the prosecuting Inspector.
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Did it never occur to you that the question of putting in the date we perfectly immaterial. The native clerk or Indian clerk sees that 200 Queens Road, we will say,
has been reported as overcrowded, and in consequence of that in two or three weeks it will be visited, and therefore he immediately, if he thinks it is worth his while, passes the word down to that justicular house, and the word being given, the house is not overcrowded for a week or two, and therefore the question of leaving the date out does not matter at all ?
I am speaking from experience, that we do find them
overcrowded.
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No, not very few,
Has it ever struck you that that warrant has never 15.bob
been executed at all, and the man has never been there ?
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Very few ?
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He has got to go into the Court and swear, and he is liable to be committed for perjury.
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You issue a warrant to an Inspector, to inspect a certain house, and he reports to you "all olear" ?
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He reports the actual number there found.
But he knows beforehand the number of people ↑ He knows how many people there ought to be.
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