CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7] — Page 461

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this happy immunity will always continue, for the process of saturation is slowly but surely going on and if unchecked cannot fail to bring forth abundant fruit in the form of misery and disease.

Statistics D. Ayres, on this point, gives (paragraph 847) which though confessedly, and necessarily, incomplete, show that the deaths, from diseases which may have arisen from filth-poison have, during the last six years, steadily increased; and he considers this increase a proof that there is something radically wrong somewhere in the condition of Hongkong, while he has every reason to believe much of it is caused by the foul and unwholesome state of the Chinese dwellings.

Further, as to the alleged unwillingness of the Chinese to co-operate in schemes of sanitary reform, Mr. Chadwick (paragraph 277) says that on one point, viz., the dislike of the Chinese to official visits, the leading Chinese, applying their own feelings to the lower classes, considerably exaggerated the objection to such visits.

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# this happy immunity will always continue, for the process of saturation is slowly but surely going on and if unchecked cannot fail to bring forth abundant fruit in the form of misery and disease. Statistics D. Ayres, on this point, gives (paragraph 847) which though confessedly, and necessarily, incomplete, show that the deaths, from diseases which may have arisen from filth-poison have, during the last six years, steadily increased; and he considers this increase a proof that there is something radically wrong somewhere in the condition of Hongkong, while he has every reason to believe much of it is caused by the foul and unwholesome state of the Chinese dwellings. 8. Further, as to the alleged unwillingness of the Chinese to co-operate in schemes of sanitary reform, Mr. Chadwick (paragraph 277) says that on one point, viz., the dislike of the Chinese to official visits, the leading Chinese, applying their own feelings to the lower classes, considerably exaggerated the objection to such visits. Page 450 Page 17 somewhere was re-adjusted to make the text more readable. The original text had some jumbled characters ("کر کو", "oni", "し") which were removed as they did not form coherent words or sentences in the context. The text was formatted into paragraphs and minor corrections were made for spelling and spacing. The page numbers ("Page 450" and "Page 17") were kept as per the original instruction.

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this happy immunity will always _

continue, for the process of saturation

is slowly but surely going

کر کو

oni

and

if unchecked cannot fail to bring

forth abundant fruit

in the form of

misery and disease.

statistics

D. Ayres, on this point, gives (paragraph 847) which though

confessedly, and necessarily, incomplete shew that the deaths, from diseases

which

may

have arisen from filth

-poison have, during the last six years,

steadily increased; and he considers

し

this increase a

proof that there is

something radically wrong

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somewhere

in the condition of Hongkong, while he has every reason to believe much of it is caused by the foul and unwholesome state of the Chinese dwellings.

Further, as to the alleged

unwillingness of the Chinese to co-operate in schemes of sanitary reform, M: - Chadwick (paragraph 277) says

that

on one point, viz, the dislike of the Chinese to official visits, the leading

Chinese, applying their own

し

feelings to

the lower classes, considerably

exaggerated the objection to such

}

something

visits

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