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Either that or possibly some member of the Board, if he was interested in property, but of course you must remember that the price per floor for limewashing inolated plague houses, dötted about hers and there, would be somewhat higher than parhaps for limewashing

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Very much higher ?

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Considerably higher, because in the one case the man has all his work concentrated, and in the other case, he has to pay his workmen higher wagen on account of plague infection also.

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Do you think that there is anything in that, that the' Chinese workmen require more for working in a house in

which there has been plague ?

I have been lead to believe so. Of course, we cant

always believe.

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I have never found that myself, in cases where we have

had to repair after a case of plague.

No, not after it has been disinfected, but I am not

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prepared to say whether they do or not.

been lead to believe that if they know of it, they will.

ask for higher wages.

Would you be surprised to hear that the price paid by 15974

the Sanitary Board was 100% more than the price paid by outsiders, who pay from $1 to $1.30 per floor.?

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Are you speaking of what you paid in those days? What private owners could get the work done for then," and now $1.10, $1.20, and possibly even $1,30, the outside price, and the contractor can make a profit on that, and the Government are paying double.

I think it is explained by the reason I gave. It is not

the only plague, but it is a question of time also,

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