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17.-In conclusion your Memorialists would earnestly beg your Lordship to consider the heavy losses the owners of the closed houses, in common with the other inhabitants of the Colony, suffered in consequence of the plague, which affected more or less the income every resident in Hongkong, and taking into consideration the facts that the plague was introduced into Hongkong from the mainland of China, that it was enabled to obtain the hold it did upon the native population, chiefly owing to the insanitary condition of the drainage and the blocking up of the outlets of the main sewers by the Government Reclamation works for weeks during the hot weather, and to the neglect of the Government or the Sanitary Board or both to enforce sanitary conditions amongst the Chinese residents for some fifty years, and, that whatever was done by the Government or by the Sanitary Board with reference to the closing of these houses was done, not simply for the benefit of the owners, but for the benefit of every inhabitant of the Colony, they respectfully ask that you will give the necessary directions that an Ordinance shall be forthwith introduced adopting the views expressed by the non-official members of Council when Ordinance 15 of 1894 was passed by the official votes, and giving the owners of the closed houses full compensation for all losses and damages they have suffered in consequence of the arbitrary and illegal action of the Permanent Committee of the Sanitary Board.
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