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(vi) Limewashing:-The usual limewashing required by the Domestic Cleanliness and Ventilation By-laws was carried out during the year.
Table XVII shows the number of floors limewashed. The difference between this total and the total in Table XV is due partly to exemptions, some floors being new and not requiring limewashing. A certain number has also been carried over into 1932.
Departmental limewashing at the request of owner and where necessary under By-law 4 was carried out throughout the year.
No complaints as to the quality of the work done or of injury to property were received.
(vii) Prevention of Mosquito Breeding:-During the year action was taken in two hundred and eighty-eight cases of mosquito nuisance or potential mosquito nuisance.
(viii) Licensed Premises:-Four hundred and seventy-nine premises were inspected by officers of the department with a view to the issue of new licences. Routine inspections of two thousand one hundred and seventeen licensed premises were made throughout the year.
(ix) Infectious Diseases:-
4. Smallpox:-On my motion the Board on the 3rd of February, 1931, rescinded its Resolution of 1918 which restricted my discretion to cause the removal to isolation of persons suffering from small-pox.
5. Rat Catching:-Thirty members of the Cleansing Staff were employed during the year setting traps, bird-lime boards and rat poison, also collecting rats from street rat-bins, private premises, etc., and taking them to the Public Mortuary for examination. Special campaigns in March and September were undertaken when rat poison was distributed throughout the urban districts. The total number of rats caught was:-
Hong Kong Kowloon 86,737 71,091Of these none were found to be plague infected,
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(vi) Limewashing:-The usual limewashing required by the Domestic Cleanliness and Ventilation By-laws was carried out during the year.
Table XVII shows the number of floors limewashed. The difference between this total and the total in Table XV is due partly to exemptions, some floors being new and not requiring limewashing. A certain number has also been carried over into 1932.
Departmental limewashing at the request of owner and where necessary under By-law 4 was carried out throughout the year.
No complaints as to the quality of the work done or of injury to property were received.
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(vii) Prevention of Mosquito Breeding :-During the year was taken in two hundred and eighty-eight cases of mosquito nuisance or potential mosquito nuisance.
(vii) Licensed Premises :-Four hundred and seventy-nine premises were inspected by officers of the department with a view to the issue of new licences. Routine inspections of two thousand one hundred and seventeen licensed premises were made throughout the year.
(ix) Infectious Diseases :-
4. Small pox:-On my motion the Board on the 3rd of February. 1931, rescinded its Resolution of 1918 which restricted my discretion to cause the removal to isolation of persons suffering from small-pox.
5. Rat Catching:-Thirty members of the Cleansing Staff were employed during the year setting traps, bird-lime boards and rat poison, also collecting rats from street rat-bins, private premises, etc., and taking them to the Public Mortuary for examination. Special campaigns in March and September were undertaken when rat poison was distributed throughout the urban districts. The total number of rats caught was:-
Hong Kong Kowloon
86,737 71,091
Of these none were found to be plague infected,
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