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Depot fees are 50 cents for cattle, 10 cents for sheep, 10 cents for swine. Slaughter fees (which are not additional to depot fees) are 40 cents for cattle, 20 cents for sheep and 30 cents for swine. There is a crematorium at Kennedy Town Slaughter House at which carcases can be destroyed on payment of a prescribed fee. A certain number of private factories are established in the immediate vicinity of the Government Slaughter Houses (Kennedy Town and Ma Tau Kok) at which lard and meat products derived solely from these slaughter houses are prepared for export under the direct supervision of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon and his staff.
5. WORK DONE UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND BUILDINGS ORDINANCE.
(i) Sanitary nuisances and Contraventions of Sanitary By-laws—Appendix B shows the total number of nuisances reported and the action taken to obtain compliance and the amount of fines. For the second half of the year it has been the practice to omit the warning letters which precede Legal Notices in the case of considerably more nuisances than heretofore, with a corresponding effect on the statistics regarding compliance. Of the total number of nuisances reported in which action was taken 27% were abated after receipt of a letter. In 630 cases a legal notice failed to produce compliance. Of the summonses which followed 569 secured convictions, 21 were discharged, 4 abandoned and 36 withdrawn.
Appendix C shows the nuisances in respect of which action was taken.
Appendix D (i) shows the Health Districts from which these nuisances were reported and Appendix D (ii) gives details of all prosecutions and the amount of fines inflicted.
(ii) Building Nuisances:-Appendix D (i) line 1 shows by districts the number of nuisances under Part III of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance reported by this Department to the Building Authority for action. These are additional to those referred to in paragraph (1) above.
(iii) Miscellaneous Improvements:-Appendix D (i) lines 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, shows miscellaneous improvements effected by District Inspectors in their districts. Lines 9, 10, 11, 12, show the number of houses demolished and erected. The great majority of these are tenement houses.
(iv) House Cleansing:-The routine work under the by-laws for the Prevention and Mitigation of Epidemic disease was carried out during the year. Appendix E shows the number of floors cleansed in the various districts and as compared with the last two years.