CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8] — Page 74

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Rent 21 JUL 19

Sanitary Board Offices,

HongKong, 3rd. June 1899.

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I have the honour to submit the following report upon

the question of overcrowding in the City of Victoria for the

information of His Excellency the Governor:-

The prevention of overcrowding has two aspects.

(1) The overcrowding in dwellings by which I mean the occupation

or a domestic building by such a number of persons that the

floor space and cubic space required by Sec. 9 of Ordinance15

of 1894 (namely, 50 square feet and 400 cubic feet per head)

is not allowed (2) The overcrowding of dwellings, or surface

crowding" as it is termed, which unhappily exists to a very

serious extent in this City of Victoria. With regard to the

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first question that of overcrowding in dwellings the matter

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is already fully dealt with as far as regards common lodging

houses, opium divans, and matsheds, and during last year 136

prosecutions for the overcrowding of such premises were insti-

tuted by me and 129 convictions obtained. I am of the opinion

that overcrowding in tenement dwellings does not exist to any Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart.

Colonial Secretary.

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