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Upon this point Dr Ayres throws further light.. ( paragraph 81), "Now what has

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"ben argued of late years is that the

"unwholesome style of building in Hongkong is peculiar to the Chinese;

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and therefore, though bad enough

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one storied buildings, they have been

permitted to make them three or four

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storied, and even then to subdivide

each storey by cook-lofts. For whose .___ sake ? Not for the sake of the Chinese population, but for the sake of a set of gamblere in house property. The overcrowding has been represented as

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showing the prosperity of the Colony,

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when it is a well-known fact that

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crowds were

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procured by the speculators

to fill these house; free of rent, in

order that they might represent them

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to purchasers as being tenanted, and

to this as much as anything

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such an increase

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we one-

of the population

living from hand to mouth as has appeared in the last few years, and "the consequent overcrowding!"

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With regard to the

alleged freedom of the Chinese from those filth diseased which accompany

defestive

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