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located in the neighbourhood of Fai-ping-shan in such streets as
Possession Street and Hollywood Road. The top floor is carried through into the house on either side
of it, the centre room being a dining room, and the rooms
on either side.
Cooking and other rooms are used for the
inmates. The bed rooms are arranged in rows with a
passage to all of them.
They are separated from each other by
a wooden partition, which stops short of the
ceiling and is about six feet in height. They
are furnished with a wooden board for a bed, two or three wooden chairs, an oblong table furnished with five or six
tea cups, a dressing case,
and a few ornaments. The dressing case is a
wooden case standing about six inches high and divided into a number of small drawers, each
of which contains cosmetics and other articles of feminine attire. It is surmounted with a small
looking glass, and amongst other things are a tooth comb, rouge paper, rice powder etc. The room is
further furnished with a washing basin, a clock and a mirror. In the centre of the bed is placed an opium smoking apparatus consisting of a pipe, lamp, and scissors for trimming the opium, pins for manipulating the opium, pipe stand and the ordinary paraphernalia of opium smoking.
The rooms are about ten feet by six feet in dimension and are not supplied with windows of any kind,
any light they receive coming from above. There is only one row of bed rooms on each side furthest from the dining room.
In general, each room...
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