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HEALTH
The 'Keep Your City Clean' campaign, which first started during 1959, in selected districts in Hong Kong and Kowloon, was ex- tended during 1961 to the Bay View and Shau Kei Wan Districts of Hong Kong and the Mong Kok, Hung Hom and To Kwa Wan Districts of Kowloon. As part of the campaign, many meetings were attended by office bearers of Kaifong Welfare Associations at which the aims of the campaign were explained and a series of films shown.
A separate 'Miss Ping On' competition sponsored by the Health Education Select Committee of the Urban Council to improve the cleanliness of resettlement estates opened on 2nd October in the multi-storey resettlement estates at Shek Kip Mei, Lei Cheng Uk, Tai Hang Tung, Hung Hom, Lo Fu Ngam, Wong Tai Sin, Jordan Valley, Kwun Tong, Chai Wan and Tung Tau.
An oratorical contest on the dangers of spitting was sponsored by the Hong Kong Junior Chamber of Commerce for all primary and secondary school children and was carried out by the joint efforts of the Chamber, the Education Department, the Information Services Department and the Urban Council.
In all these campaigns the Kaifong Associations and other voluntary organizations played a valuable part.
Slaughterhouses. There are two slaughterhouses under the control of the Urban Services Department, one at Kennedy Town and one at Ma Tau Kok. Previously these slaughterhouses were dependent mainly on China for their supply of livestock, but in 1961 supplies from this source dropped considerably with the result that the majority of animals for slaughter came from other countries in the Far East, principally Thailand and Cambodia. During the year 915,263 pigs, 84,746 cattle, 6,933 sheep and goats were slaughtered. Sketch plans for new abattoirs at Kennedy Town and Cheung Sha Wan were completed.
The By-Product Plant at Kennedy Town continued to convert slaughterhouse-waste into fertilizer and animal foodstuffs, both of which are in demand by local farmers. One hundred and forty five tons of meat and bone meal were produced during 1961, together with small quantities of other products such as hoof and horn meal. Hawkers and Markets. Further progress was made during the year in the programme to reconstruct or alter a number of the 42