HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1954
Inspectors, partly trained in meat and food inspection, have been sent to the United Kingdom for an additional year of training and to qualify for a Meat and Food Certificate. On their return these inspectors will be employed in a new abattoir at Kennedy Town.
For many years the Urban Services Department carried out house cleansing quarterly throughout most of the urban area but in 1954, owing to the acute shortage of water, this was replaced experimentally by a system of house inspection. Under this system tenants are left to clean their own houses and the Health Inspectors advise them as to cleansing methods and hygiene.
Approximately 2,200 persons are employed on refuse collection and disposal, and street cleansing, together with 51 specialized refuse collection vehicles, 6 street washing vehicles and 18 barges specially constructed for the removal of refuse.
The amount of refuse collected each day is steadily increasing and now amounts to 1,551 cubic yards. This is approximately 2 times the amount collected in 1947. All refuse is removed daily by specially constructed barges to the Council's dump at Sham Wan.
Street washing vehicles have been engaged daily for the last six months in delivering well and nullah water to all markets and one slaughter-house for wash- ing down in order to conserve Government mains water. This is in addition to the regular duties of cleaning street gully traps and nightly routine washing of about 65 miles of roads and footpaths per vehicle.
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