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TWENTY NIGHTH MENTINO.

8.10 p.m. Triday the 14th September, 1906.

The Honourable Mr E. A. Hewett, presided:-

Present:- Kossra A. Shelton Hooper, Fung wa Chun and Lau Chu Pak•

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Dr W. W. Pearse, recalled:-

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Dr Pearse, I repeat that question. Do you know the

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What are your ideas about limewashing, Dr Pearse 9 13453 Do you think that the effect of it, as carried out in

Hongkong, would be of any use at all from the bacter-

iological point of view, for destroying the germs of

disease?

Mr Shelton Hooper:-

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The Chairman:-

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It is of some use.

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Very much?

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That of course depends upon whether the germs of

disease are lying around the walls and in some places

which are not limewasked.

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Do you mean to say if the limewashing is thoroughly

carried out, it ought to kill the germs ?

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Yes. If there were gerns oaked upon the wals of the house, and you were to cover them over with lime, there

is no doubt a caustic lime would kill them.

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I am not talking of limewashing such as carried out at

home. I am talking of limewashing, such as carried out

here a shell lima, or a coral lime ?

It is not used as it might be used. When we had some trouble in the year 1903, in connection with the lime-

washing of plague houses, we had the lime analysed, and

I think it was put in the contrast that the man should