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of Victoria alone. There are practically no empty houses in

Victoria to receive this population, and such empty houses as

there are at Kowloon would not, when the population similarly displaced in that district had been taken into account,h

accommodated more than about 6,000 or 8,000 persons.

have

Unless Goverment had been prepared with some scheme

of housing on a large scale the displaced population, a law

exacting such scale universally would have become a dead

letter.

The most objectionable feature in existing domestic

buildings is the windowless cubicle. Under the Ordinance these

will cease to exist. The increased light and ventilation

thereby afforded in existing buildings should effect a large

improvement even though there should be no reduction in the

number of inhabitants of a house. But it is anticipated that

there will be a considerable reduction, for it will be im-

possible to arrange for as many cubicles as formerly and with

fewer cubicles there must be a displacement of a number of

families which will relieve the overcrowding to a great extent.

Section 54 (4). This new provision by

is made

which compensation for the compulsory slaughter of infected

animals bred in the Colony, is due to the fact of the acquisi-

tion of the New Territory where a considerable number of

Cattle are reared.

Section 89 contains a new provision, in

accordance with the principle laid down in the Imperial Public

Health Act of 1875, by which the Sanitary Board may award

compensation for damage done in the process of disinfection,

and