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1897:- Tytam reservoir capacity increased to 407,000,000 gallons. 1899:- Wong Nei Chung reservoir added, capacity 33,260,000 gallons.
1904:- Tytam by-wash reservoir constructed to hold 28,301,000 gallons.
1907:- Tytam intermediate reservoir constructed to hold 210,400,000 gallons.
1917:- Tytam Tuk reservoir added, completing the scheme of Tytam reservoirs, capacity 1,419,000,000 gallons.
Kowloon.
1895:- First public supply increased in 1901 to yield 332,000 gallons daily.
1919: completion of the present Kowloon reservoir on the Sha Tin Road capacity 374,000,000 gallons.
1906 (1904 to 1906) provision of a supply for shipping yielding a daily "draw off" of 500,000 gallons and over.
Shaukiwan
1896: - Inauguration of a scheme to yield 50,000 gallons daily 1912-1914 - Augmentation of former supply and construction of a service reservoir to hold 350,000 gallons.
Aberdeen.
1896:- Scheme projected for a service reservoir to hold 112,000 gallons received from hill streams. This has since been replaced by a supply from the reservoir supplying the Aberdeen paper mill and the provision of filter beds.
Although the provision of public water supplies has undoubtedly been the principal factor in reducing the incidence of Typhoid Fever and allied diseases in the Colony, there still remain other ways of acquiring infection.
Twenty to thirty years ago, there was in this colony a widespread belief that Chinese did not suffer from Typhoid Fever to any appreciable extent. The old reports of the Colonial Surgeon had been forgotten. It is probably true that the Chinese have a higher degree of immunity to this disease than have Europeans of these days. This, combined with the habit of tea drinking, which means that drinking water is boiled, now accounts probably to a great extent for the difference in incidence of the disease between Chinese and non-Chinese residents.
At the same time, the infection of non-Chinese was generally ascribed to the eating of vegetables, especially in salads, grown by Chinese and therefore by the use of manure from human sources, and also by the eating of oysters.
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1897:-Tytam reservoir capacity increased to 407000000 gallons. 1899:-Wong Nei Chung reservoir added, capacity 33260000
gallons.
1904-Ťytam by-wash reservoir constructed to hold 28301000
gallons.
1907:-Tytam intermediate reservoir
reservoir constructed to hold 210400000 gallons.
1917:-Tytam Tuk reservoir added, completing the scheme of
Tytam reservoirs, capacity 1419000000 gallons.
Kowloon.
1995:-First public supply increased in
1901-to yield 332000 gallons daily.
1919: completion of the present Kowloon reservoir on the Sha
Tin Road capacity 374000000 gallons.
1906-(1904 to 1906) provision of a supply for shipping yielding
a daily "draw off" of 500000 gallons and over.
Shaukiwan
1896: --Inauguration of a scheme to yield 50000 gallons daily 1912-1914-Augmentation of former supply and construction of
a service reservoir to hold 350000 gallons.
Aberdeen.
1896:-Scheme projected for a service reservoir to hold 112000 gallons received from hill streams. This has since been replaced by a supply from the reservoir supplying the Aberdeen paper mill and the provision of filter beds.
Although the provision of public water supplies has undoub- tedly been the principal factor in reducing the incidence of Typhoid Fever and allied diseases in the Colony there still re- main other ways of acquiring infection.
Twenty to thirty years ago there was in this colony a wide- spread belief that Chinese did not suffer from Typhoid Fever to any appreciable extent. The old reports of the Colonial Sur- geon had been forgotten. It is probably true that the Chinese have a higher degree of immunity to this disease than have Europeans of these days. This combined with the habit of tea drinking which means that drinking water is boiled now accounts probably to a great extent for the difference in incidence of the disease between Chinese and non-Chinese residents.
At the same time the infection of non-Chinese was generally ascribed to the eating of vegetables, especially in salads, grown by Chinese and therefore by the use of manure from human sources and also by the eating of oysters.
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