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Q-In your opinion, the people have more chance of recovering in their own houses, than if removed to the Hospital?
A.--Yes.
Q. And it is also your opinion that some sick people died of fright?
A. Yes, that also.
The Chairman.-Is that all, Mr. Ho?
A.--Well, I want to say something about the wells. A great many people dip up this, bad water in the streets, because the two hours in which hydrants are turned on, are not sufficient.
-This is the rider main system?
A. Yes. And if there is well water, the wells should not be stopped up. Before the nullahs were made in Hongkong, bringing the water from the hills, the Chinese drank well water. The Chinese boil the water before drinking it. It would not harm them then, if the water was not quite pure in the wells. It is no use closing up the wells.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-Do you mean to say it is better to allow the people to use the water for their drinking purposes, or for other purposes, than to get the water from the nullahs?
A.-Certainly. If there was sufficient water from the mains during the day, the people would not draw water from the wells. They do this because there is not 11 sufficiency of water. If you close the wells, then they have to go and get it from the hills and holes and cracks and so on.
Q-You often pass Old Bailey, dont you ?
A. Yes.
Q.—Have you ever seen young women or girls taking the water from the channel?
A.-I have.
The Chairman.-What is this channel, Mr. Ho, where this water comes from?
A.-There is a hole, and the water comes out from the gaol, and every morning the people there get it.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-You dont know if the water is pure?
A. I dont know.
The Chairman.What do they take this water away for,--to drink ?
A. They must use it for drinking purposes, or washing.
Mr. Fung Wa Chun.-You know there is a nullah in Pokfulam Road.
ever seen people carrying buckets of water from there?
A.-A great many.
Q. They use that water for drinking purposes ?
A.--Certainly.
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