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division. Much progress has been made with the basic services. Most of the larger villages have now been provided with full-time cleansing labourers and the division, working in co-operation with the New Territories Administration, has embarked on an intensive programme of providing aqua-privies, incinerators and refuse collection points. The division is also heavily involved in the planning and development of sophisticated urban services in the three new towns of Tsuen Wan, Tuen Mun and Shatin as part of the 10-year housing programme.
The disposal of the dead is the responsibility of the Urban Council in the Urban Areas and of the Urban Services Department in the New Territories. There are six public cemeteries (two of which are now closed) and two public crematoria directly controlled by the Urban Council; 20 private cemeteries are under its general super- vision. In the New Territories, there are five public cemeteries and one public crema- torium under the direct control of the Urban Services Department. In addition, eight private cemeteries and a private crematorium are under its general supervision. The Urban Council provides two funeral depots, one of which is open 24 hours a day for reposing services and last rites, and for transportation to a public cemetery or crematorium for interment or cremation. Such services are free of charge. Two commercial funeral parlours and 33 undertakers are licensed to arrange funeral services. In addition, the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals provides a non-profit-making funeral service in Kowloon,
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