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recommended that in the case of existing domestic buildings
the solution which had already been indicated to the
Sanitary Board in May of last year, should be adopted of
making detailed inspection of the houses and granting on
their merits exemption under the proviso to Section 154.
This work has been systematically carried out throughout
Victoria and Kowloon.
The Committee further advised
that the same policy should be adopted in the case of re-
-erected domestic buildings except in the case mentioned
in Section 42 (2) of the Ordinance now under discussion.
Effect has been given to this recommendation.
Finally the Committee recommended
that the provision of cubicle-like rooms in existing blocks
of buildings might be rendered possible by a scheme of
improvement on the lines that have been adopted in Section
44, with which should be read Section 11. Under these
Sections a larger number of inmates is allowed in rooms
which do not contain cubicles, and the provision of lateral
windows for such rooms is facilitated.
The idea of providing upper floors
in blocks of Chinese tenement houses with lateral windows
by pulling down the upper storeys of every third house
was,
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