makes a careful examination to see if any fleers need repair,if any gražings are
103 missing, and so on.
The ascompnying diagram,kindly draw for me by Dr W.J.Kosdman,late Asting Medical Officer of Health for Hongkong, and new HM.0.H.Kewleen, shows the arrangeaent and mode of accupation of a typical 'floor' of a medern Chinase house in these distriste.
(washing hung up ló dry kerej
Verandah open to the air
A
B
Area not less
sliding "hook
sliding
"dow
Staircase
D
Yard
sliding door
Window
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Kilchen
Passage (usually recupied)
A, B, C, D. separate dwelling:
Seak 1/8" 14 1
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The Bewegeing constitute the main predisposing sauses, but the direct sauss of the prevalence of tuberculesia in Hongkong is,facile princeps, the expecteration habit. Nearly all writers en tuberculosis in the tropics note this peculiar trait. In the houses of the peer a person will expectorate anywhere on the fleer, er,if he is ill in bod, on the bedalathes. Owing to the unavoidable evororewing in the peerer dis- triots the children play about on the fleer,putting everything inte their mouths, breathing a vitiated atmosphere and one often tubarele-indon. These are the reasons for the extenidve prevalence of tubareulosis among the native population here and fer the relatively high proportion of cases met with axong children. A subsidiary but analogous onuse is that manner of feeding their infants which many mothers, themselves tuberculeus in pens instances at least, indulge in,ef first chering the foed and then placing it in the mouths of their babies.
Further, experiment has show that there is considerable danger of tranmission of tuberele bacilli from one persen te anether by newna of eating utensils,if these ara unclosed. In China the eating tegothor in common, the using of the same general dish, the insertion of individual ohepatisks into the food skylied for the meal, the traneference of food with the chapsticko of one person to the mouth or dish of
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