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Mr. Shelton Hooper. Do you know the specific gravity of sulphur dioxide?
A.-32.
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Q.-Dont you think that with that specific gravity the disinfection would be effica- cious, notwithstanding the amount of escape which would take place in a Chinese house?
A. It would not be efficacious.
The Chairman. You could not sufficiently close it up to kill all the germs?
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A. That is my opinion.
111.-Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-So that limewashing is not entirely for killing plague
germs?
A.-I don't know what it was introduced for first, but I should not carry it on means of destroying plague germs in a house.
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The Chairman-Do you think that limewashing is of any use at all, in keeping down or decreasing the number of cases of plague in Hongkong, except that such advantage would be by keeping the houses rather cleaner?
A.-I say its advantage as an anti-plague measure is very small.
Q. I suppose we all think it is an advantage to have the place cleaned twice a year?
A. One advantage is that it enables you to know that the place has been thoroughly
gone over.
113. THOMAS LUFF PERKINS sworn :-
Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Dont you think, if you were asked to discriminate, that with your knowledge, and with very little trouble, and the aid of a map, you could roughly sketch out whole areas that should be exempt from limewashing twice a year?
A.-I should think it might be reduced, and that it might be left to the Medical Officer of Health or someone in authority,-some high officer to discriminate.
124 to 128-JOHN LEMM, sworn :-
The Chairman.-You are in business as an Architect?
A. Yes.
Q.—In your own name ?
A. Yes.
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