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The total number of animals slaughtered for food were:-
1909. Cattle. Sheep & Goats. Swine.
Cattle Sheep & Goats, Swine.
1908 Cattle Sheep & Goats, Swine.
Cattle Sheep & Goats Swine Kennedy Town, 25,770 17,733 Ma Tau Kok, 5,078 122 152,312 24,812 17,391 20,211 4,800 713 149,243 25,652 Aberdeen, 2,996 3,242 Shaukiwan, 7,272 7,094 30,848 17,855 182,791 29,612 18,104 185,231 Grand total of all animals, 231,494 232,947The figures for Aberdeen and Shaukiwan are got from the contractor.
The following table shows the numbers of animals slaughtered in the Colony during the past ten years:-
Year. Cattle. Swine. Sheep & Goats. 1900, 23,939 165,760 18,364 1901, 24,938 172,205 18,544 1902. 25,669 202,495 20,780 1903. 28,335 187,265 22,918 1904, 30,829 181,046 23,736 1905, 26,758 186,059 19,774 1906, 27,141 200,586 16,403 1907, 27,631 206,124 18,279 1908, 29,612 185,231 18,104 1909, 30,848 182,789 17,855Dairies and Cowsheds.
Rinderpest, which now appears to be an annual epidemic, occurred at the Dairy Farm, Pokfulam. Following the practice of former years inoculations of serum only were given to adult sick and in-contact cattle and simultaneous inoculations of serum and virulent blood to all non-immune young stock. The results were very satisfactory.
Foot and Mouth Disease also prevailed during the latter part of the year at Pokfulam but by the end of the year the epidemic had ceased. The treatment of this disease which inflicts heavy loss among milch cattle is still far from satisfactory.
The Chinese dairies, as usual, escaped all epidemics.