Post by NZBC on Mar 5, 2011 22:05:31 GMT 12
CHINESE GARDENS. SHOCKING DISCLOSURES
Melbourne, which depends largely for its supply of vegetables on Chinese gardens, received a nasty shock last week when the Board of Health Inspector reported on the methods of the growers. Dr Reid's report states that in various quarters the gardens are placed amid thickly populated centres, most of them being managed by companies or syndicates of Chinese, who live on the premises. The residences are generally old houses which have fallen into a state of ' delapidation. Overcrowding is the rule, three or four sleeping in a room 10 feet by 10 feet, from which light and air are excluded, the outhouses are condemned, and the drainage arangements are extremely bad, very often no provision whatever being made to carry away liquid wastes. Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 61, 13 March 1907, Page 3 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=MEX19070313.2.8&cl=search&srpos=141&e=-------100--101----0chinese+market+garden--&st=1
Melbourne, which depends largely for its supply of vegetables on Chinese gardens, received a nasty shock last week when the Board of Health Inspector reported on the methods of the growers. Dr Reid's report states that in various quarters the gardens are placed amid thickly populated centres, most of them being managed by companies or syndicates of Chinese, who live on the premises. The residences are generally old houses which have fallen into a state of ' delapidation. Overcrowding is the rule, three or four sleeping in a room 10 feet by 10 feet, from which light and air are excluded, the outhouses are condemned, and the drainage arangements are extremely bad, very often no provision whatever being made to carry away liquid wastes. Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 61, 13 March 1907, Page 3 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=MEX19070313.2.8&cl=search&srpos=141&e=-------100--101----0chinese+market+garden--&st=1