WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1986
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PUBLIC URGED TO SUPPORT ANTI-RABIES DRIVE
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THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT TODAY (WEDNESDAY) APPEALED TO THE PUBLIC AGAIN TO SUPPORT THE ANTI-RABIES DRIVE BY GETTING THEIR DOGS INOCULATED AND PUT UNDER PROPER CONTROL.
SENIOR VETERINARY OFFICER, DR NORMAN CHENG, SAID INOCULATION AGAINST RABIES AND CONTROL OF STRAYS WERE THE PRIMARY WAYS TO PREVENT AN OUTBREAK OF THE DISEASE.
+AN INOCULATION IS VALID FOR THREE YEARS AND RE-INOCULATION EVERY THREE YEARS IS THEREFORE NECESSARY TO KEEP UP THE IMMUNITY.+
DOG OWNERS SHOULD BRING THEIR ANIMALS TO ANY OF THE FOUR GOVERNMENT KENNELS OR 19 DOG INOCULATION AND LICENSING CENTRES THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY,
COPIES OF A LEAFLET WHICH LISTS THE ADDRESSES OF THESE KENNELS AND CENTRES ARE OBTAINABLE FREE OF CHARGE FROM ALL DISTRICT OFFICES AND THE DEPARTMENT'S HEADQUARTERS ON THE 12TH FLOOR, CANTON ROAD GOVERNMENT OFFICES IN KOWLOON.
+ ALTHOUGH THERE HAS BEEN NO INDIGENOUS OUTBREAK SINCE AUGUST 1984 STRINGENT CONTROL MEASURES WILL CONTINUE TO SAFEGUARD AGAINST THE RE-INTRODUCTION OF THE DISEASE,+ DR CHENG SAID.
THESE INCLUDE QUARANTINE OF IMPORTED DOGS AND CATS, STRAY DOG CONTROL, OBSERVATION OF BITER DOGS AND MOBILE SERVICES TO RURAL VILLAGES BY INOCULATION TEAMS.
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DR CHENG SAID THAT SINCE AUGUST 1984, 64 075 DOGS HAD BEEN INOCULATED OR RE-INOCULATED AGAINST RABIES AND ANOTHER 22 915 STRAY DOGS ROUNDED UP.
IN OCTOBER, MOBILE INOCULATION TEAMS WOULD CALL ON VILLAGES IN YUEN LONG AND TSUEN WAN.
DOG OWNERS IN THESE VILLAGES ARE URGED TO MAKE FULL USE OF THE MOBILE SERVICES TO HAVE THEIR PETS INOCULATED AND LICENSED.
DREDGING UNDERWAY AT SHING MUN RIVER
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THE SHING MUN RIVER IN SHA TIN IS BEING CLEANED UP UNDER AN $8 MILLION CONTRACT FOR MAINTENANCE DREDGING ALONG THE UPPER REACHES.
THE WORK WILL IMPROVE RIVER FLOW AND ENSURE THAT THE RIVER BED REMAINS SUBMERGED AT THE LOWEST TIDAL LEVELS.
/IT WILL