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consideration to anything which emanates from the

Government of India on the subject of plague.

I quite agree with you.

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And as I say, limewashing is not recommended by them. They recommend the burning of the houses.

That is not possible here.

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They recommend segregation.

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That is not possible, we havnt the land.

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And they recommend, - but limowashing is outside the 1543] Report.

But that does not convince me that limewashing is not necessary from a sanitary point of view for Chinese houses in Hongkong.

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We know that this limewashing costs the community an 15438

@normous sum of money every year. Do you think there

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Yes, as a cleanses, and as an improvement to the

lighting of the room.

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Do you think it contributes much to killing germe,

reducing sickness ?

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I dont think it kills the germɛ so much as killing

vermin.

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And do you think therefore that the inconvenience and 15940

expense which is caused to the community by this

limewashing is justified by the results ↑

I think so, yea. I think the place would be hopeless,

if we had no cleansing and limewashing. The houses

would be much darker and much dirtier than they are at

present.

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Limewashing here is not to be dompared with limewashing at home, because we have not succeeded in getting a

good quality of lime. You still think that a good deal

of good results from it.

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