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the statements alluded to, as accurate information concerning Colonial matters in the Colony is obtainable from the Office List and recent published reports on the drainage and water supply of Hong Kong and Kowloon.
I, however, desire to place on record that though I offered to give him any information in my power, Dr Wilm never once applied to me for any information whatever with reference to the drainage and water supply of the Colony and that I made such a careful investigation into the system of drainage that the public sewers or "slop water system of drains" as he terms it, were found not to justify the statement that they "frequently become stopped up, and, being leaky, allow filthy water to escape into the houses".
5.
The whole of the public sewers have been carefully laid and tested before the trenches have been filled in, and I consider such a statement as that contained in the last paragraph on page 23 respecting the "slop water system of drains" ought never to have been made without the fullest investigation.
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the statements alluded to, as accurate information
concerning Colonial
m
the Colony is obtainable from the Office List and recent published reports
the drainage and water supply of Hong Kong and Howlonn.
I, however, desire to place
on
record that
though I offered to give him any information
my power, Dr Wilm
never once
for any information whatever
or
a.s
in
referred to me
to the drainage
am
water supply of the Colony and that I
made such a careful investigation
certain he
ruver
into the system of drainage
- ment that the public
to justify the state.
sewers or "slop water system of drains" as he terms it, "frequently become stopped
up, and, being leaky, allow filthy water to escape
into the houses"..
5 .
The whole
of
the
public
Feuers
have been
carefully laid and tested before the trenches have been filled in, and I consider such a statement as that contained in the last paragraph on page 23
respecting the "slop water system of drains" ought never to have been made without the
fullest
investigation
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