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appears that such claim is not justified by the facts. Hitherto it was necessary to wait until the expiry of the limewashing season.
(iii) By-law 1 of the Disinfection of Infected Premises, By-law 5 of the Removal of Patients By-laws and By-law 1 of the Notification of Infectious Disease By-laws were amended so as to include Yellow Fever in the list of epidemic, endemic, contagious or infectious disease.
(iv) By-law 1 of the Offensive Trades By-laws was amended so as to include Pig-roasting in the list of Offensive Trades.
(v) By-law 6 of the Offensive Trades By-laws was amended in order to give the Board power to order the thorough cleansing and limewashing of the entire walls upon the premises so licensed.
(vi) By-law 14 of the Offensive Trades By-laws was amended so as to enable the Board in the case of the trade of rag-picking, rag-storing, hair cleaning, feather-storing or feather-cleaning to require the adoption of special measures for disinfecting materials and destroying vermin.
Cemeteries and Crematoria.
No new cemeteries were opened in 1920.
During the year 1,370 private exhumations were carried out as follows:- Mount Caroline 299, Kai Lung Wan 418, Kai Lung Wan East 150, Ma Tau Wai 74, Sai Yu Shek 97, Mount Davis 22, Tai Shek Ku 2, Roman Catholic Cemetery 12, Colonial Cemetery 2, Chinese Christian Cemetery 1, Kowloon Tong 49, Sham Shui Po 33, Chai Wan 180, Aberdeen 4, Cheung Sha Wan 3, Hau Pui Lung 1 and from places other than authorised cemeteries 23.
5,167 exhumations were carried out at the expense of the Government, as follows:- Mount Caroline 1,921, Kai Lung Wan 97, Kai Lung Wan East 1,952, and Chai Wan 1,197.
The number of exhumations in 1919 was 550.
There were 62 cremations, 41 at the Japanese Crematorium, So Kon Po, and 21 at the Sikh Temple.
Interments.
The following numbers of burials took place in the various cemeteries during the year :-
Colonial 84 Roman Catholic (Wong Nei Chung) 167 Mohammedan 70 Parsee 2 Japanese Crematorium 41 Sikh Crematorium 21 Jewish 1 Malay 0 Roman Catholic (So Kon Po) 1,485 Total 1,871