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Yes, it properly done in the first place.

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You said that it would ha a good thing for all tenement houses to be limewashed twité a year. On what growa,

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that it would be do you say it would be a good thing better to do it twice a year. Do you suppose for one

moment that it is any good as regards plague ?

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All experts have said so. I have not analysed.

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I think experts opinions differ a good deal ?

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All technical books say limewash is a good thing.

For plague ?

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Not as againet plague, but 1: a ranitary covering to a

wall.

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How do you account for 45 per cent of germs. If it is good stuff, that ought not to be.

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Yes.

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You have been in business a good many years in Hongkong, Mr Leam. Do you think there is any advantage in putting

year. house owners to the expense of limewashing twice a beyond the fact that by compelling him to limewash twice a year everything is cleaned out. I think we

admit that is an advantage.

The Chairman:-

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A.

If done properly, I would say that once a year would be

quite sufficient.

My question is whether getting aside the advantage lo which accrues from having everything cleared out of the house, everything moved, and all the corners swept and garnished, beyond that there is any advantage from

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a public health point of view, by putting it on twice

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So, I dont think so.

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Is there my further advantage do you think, apeskir. from a professional polat of view, if not from a

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