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5. Veterinary supervision of animals, control of diseases, introduction of new stock, maintenance of stud animals.
6. Establishment of large sewage farm utilising city wastes and night soil.
7. Establishment of rural cooperatives to improve lot of producers, to facilitate transport and to improve marketing.
8. Reclamation of hillsides, swamps etc.
FISHERIES.
Activities.
1. Establishment of a cooperative for collection, transport, processing and marketing of fish in Hong Kong and China.
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Research into the fishing resources of the sea and local techniques of fishing with a view to their improvement.
Research into the use of power-driven vessels. Marine biological and oceanographical research. Research into processing of fish and other marine products and exploitation of results through cooperative. 6. Study and improvement of lot of fisherfolk.
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Maintenence of research station, aquarium, museum and research work.
8. Cooperation with neighbouring countries and advisory work.
9. Publication of results in scientific, popular and vernacular books, journals and bulletins.
10. Research into freshwater and brackish water pond fisheries.
11. Research into economic products other than fish, e.g. crabs, prawns, oysters.
NUTRITION: biological and premedical aspects.
This subject is essentially biological and not medical and though it should cooperate with the medical department should be linked with the producer departments of agriculture” and fisheries.
Activities. 1. Coordination of results of agricultural and
fisheries research in respect to food and food values.
2. Investigation into primary foods imported and locally produced with a view to raising nutritive values of basic diet of Chinese populace.
5. Investigation into the processing of foods in the Colony and maintenance of standards.
Research into new foods and by-products of industry. 5. Advisory work to combat malnutrition in workers, school children, mothers and infants; to prevent beri-beri and pellagra, to check tuberculosis, tropical ulcers, etc.
6. Advice to Government departments -- -medical, labour, education, economic and to firms employing large numbers of workers.
7. Correlation of results of researches with those of neighbouring countries.
8. Establishment of research station and of balanced food factory.