CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6] — Page 412

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failure. The hope to force families to occupy floors where cubicles could be legally provided has not been realised. Illegal cubicles have been removed again and again only to be re-erected again and again; and where the occupants of the cubicles are too poor to persist in re-erecting wooden structures the device has been resorted to of putting up curtains which can be pulled down on the approach of an Inspector.

On the other hand in new houses scarcely any attempt has been made to adopt new designs which will render legal cubicle-like rooms possible.

In these circumstances I have drawn the attention of the Board to the proviso at the end of Section 154 of the principal Ordinance as amended by Ordinance 23 of 1903, and have suggested to them that they should depute Officers to make a house-to-house inspection of all Chinese tenement houses built prior to the passing of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, to decide what number of cubicles, if any, in excess of what the Law permits may be reasonably allowed on each floor, and to report accordingly to the Board with a view to the latter making recommendations to the Governor-in-Council for exemptions from the Section.

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408 failure. The hope to force families to occupy floors where cubicles could be legally provided has not been realised. Illegal cubicles have been removed again and again only to be re-erected again and again; and where the occupants of the cubicles are too poor to persist in re-erecting wooden structures the device has been resorted to of putting up curtains which can be pulled down on the approach of an Inspector. On the other hand in new houses scarcely any attempt has been made to adopt new designs which will render legal cubicle-like rooms possible. In these circumstances I have drawn the attention of the Board to the proviso at the end of Section 154 of the principal Ordinance as amended by Ordinance 23 of 1903, and have suggested to them that they should depute Officers to make a house-to-house inspection of all Chinese tenement houses built prior to the passing of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, to decide what number of cubicles, if any, in excess of what the Law permits may be reasonably allowed on each floor, and to report accordingly to the Board with a view to the latter making recommendations to the Governor-in-Council for exemptions from the Section.

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5. 408 failure. The hope to force families to occupy floors where cubicles could be legally provided has not been realised. Illegal cubicles have been removed again and again only to be re-erected again and again; and where the occupants of the cubicles are too poor to persist in re-eracting wooden structures the device has been resorted to of putting up curtains which can be pulled down on the approach of an Inspector. On the other hand in new houses scarcely any attempt has been made to adopt new designs which will render legal cubicle-like rooms possible. In these circumstances I have draw the attention of the Board to the proviso at the end of Section 154 of the principal Ordinance as amended by Ordinance 23 of 1903, and have suggested to them that they should depute Officers to make a house to house inspection of all Chinese tenement houses built prior to the passing of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, to decide what number of cubicles, if any, in excess of what the Law permits may be reasonably allowed on each floor, and to report accordingly to the Board with a view to the latter making recommenda- -tions to the Governor-in-Council for exemptions from the Section.

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failure. The hope to force families to occupy floors where

cubicles could be legally provided has not been realised.

Illegal cubicles have been removed again and again only to

be re-erected again and again; and where the occupants of

the cubicles are too poor to persist in re-eracting wooden

structures the device has been resorted to of putting up

curtains which can be pulled down on the approach of an

Inspector.

On the other hand in new houses

scarcely any attempt has been made to adopt new designs

which will render legal cubicle-like rooms possible.

In these circumstances I have draw

the attention of the Board to the proviso at the end of

Section 154 of the principal Ordinance as amended by

Ordinance 23 of 1903, and have suggested to them that they

should depute Officers to make a house to house inspection

of all Chinese tenement houses built prior to the passing

of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, to decide what number of

cubicles, if any, in excess of what the Law permits may be

reasonably allowed on each floor, and to report accordingly

to the Board with a view to the latter making recommenda-

-tions to the Governor-in-Council for exemptions from the

Section.

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