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It is likely that the needs of the farming community would exhaust the amount of fertilizer that could be produced by the Indore process.
Reclamation can be effected at an economical rate by controlled dumping and covering with spoil, and incineration would be, no doubt, the more economical method of disposing of the balance left from dumping and composting. A destructor for Kowloon refuse was planned to be erected at Tai Kok Tsui on a site adjoining that selected for a mortuary, crematorium and disinfecting station.
(5) Training School.
We consider that it is highly desirable that the Colony should possess a training school for health inspectors, health visitors, district midwives, vaccinators, maternal and child wel- fare nurses and similar ancillary groups.
We are aware that such a school was planned in olose proximity to the University in 1940, since its value in assisting and giving medical students a much needed bias towards preventive medicine was fully appreciated. Moreover, such a health training centre would form a valuable adjuvant to the post-graduate course for the diploma in hygiene and tropical medicine which had started immediately prior to the outbreak of war. It seems unlikely that St. John's Hostel will now be available for this purpose, but it is probable that the former King's College which has been abandoned by the Education Department could be converted into such a centre at a not undue cost.
With relatively little cost, provision could be made in the centre for a training school for dental students, dentistry being one of the professions that is made up of a handful of qualified dental surgeons and a large number of unqualified (and not always highly skilled) practitioners of dentistry.
(6) Slaughter House.
The two public slaughter houses at Kennedy Town and Ma Tau Kok are out-of-date and badly sited in the light of housing developments, during the past thirty years. Two tentative alter- native sites were considered before the Pacific War and the Health Authorities favoured that at Gin Drinkers' Bay.
This location has the advantage of being near to but completely segregated from the township, so that flies, smells, eto., are of much less danger and nuisance. it the same time, manure, blood and other valuable fertilizing material would be much more readily accessible to farmers in the Leased Territories.
(7) Hawkers Standings.
We are aware that a special committee has been consider- ing the best means of dealing with the serious problem of hawkers in Hong Kong since the liberation.
Apart from being a menace to health, the congestion resulting from the partial, and, sometimes complete, blocking of pathways and roads is responsible for loss of life and injury from traffic accidents.
We are of the opinion that much of this danger and nui- sance could be avoided if hawkers were required to take up their stand on open spaces paved with cement, with drains, water hydrant for cleansing, fly-proof and rat-proof dust bins, etc. Certain of the areas, particularly in the more congested districts, where houses have been demolished by bomb or by looting, might, we urge, be cleared of rubble to serve as hawkers stands.
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