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Only one public incinerator exists and is sited at Kennedy Town on the Island. Here dirty dressing from hospitals, condemned carcasses and slaughterhouse waste are burned.
The refuse disposal system has certain definite objections from the public health standpoint, but it is capable of improvement and is certainly a degree better than the former arrangement under which all refuse was dumped at sea.
Incineration of all waste at one or more points on Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon and the New Territories with the utilisation of ash and incombustible material for filling reclaimable areas constitutes an ideal to be aimed for when financial considerations justify. It may be of interest to note that the existing system was seriously interrupted at the time of the typhoon. Two dust boat stations were completely demolished and others were severely damaged. In addition, one refuse barge was lost and three partially destroyed. Apart from the normal amount of refuse, some 1,500 tons resulted from the typhoon and took a week to clear.
Refuse barges may be out of action for four days at a time when the typhoon signal is raised and refuse has to be dumped at certain points along the shore during that period, a proceeding that has certain grave public health objections.
(c) Drainage.
As in previous years, a comprehensive system of surface drainage was undertaken by the Public Works Department in 1937. In addition, a considerable amount of anti-malarial drainage was constructed in the neighbourhood of Kai Tak Aerodrome, in the proposed cantonment area at Kowloon Tong on the outskirts of Kowloon, and elsewhere.
(d) Water supplies.
Mention has been made earlier in this Report of the completion of the Shing Mun Jubilee Dam supplying water to Kowloon and Victoria townships. As might be expected with waterworks installed over a long period of years, the type and efficiency vary somewhat.
The water supply of Hong Kong, which is under the control of the Water Department of the Public Works Department, is obtained from impounding reservoirs having a combined maximum capacity of 5,971 million gallons and a combined drainage area of 10,536 acres or nearly sixteen and a half square miles.
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Only one public incinerator exists and is sited at Kennedy Town on the Island. Here dirty dressing from hospitals, con- demned carcasses and slaughter house waste are burned.
The refuse disposal system has certain definite objections from the public health standpoint, but it is capable of improve- ment and is certainly a degree better than the former arrange- ment under which all refuse was dumped at sea.
Incineration of all waste at one or more points on Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon and the New Territories with the utilisation of ash and incombustible material for filling reclaimable areas con- stitutes an ideal to be aimed for when financial considerations justify. It may be of interest to note that the existing system was seriously interrupted at the time of the typhoon. Two dust boat stations were completely demolished and others were severely damaged. In addition, one refuse barge was lost and three partially destroyed. Apart from the normal amount of refuse, some 1,500 tons resulted from the typhoon and took a week to clear.
Refuse barges may be out of action for four days at a time when the typhoon signal is raised and refuse has to be dumped at certain points along the shore during that period, a proceed- ing that has certain grave public health objections.
(c) Drainage.
As in previous years a comprehensive system of surface drainage was undertaken by the Public Works Department in 1937. In addition, a considerable amount of anti-malarial drainage was constructed in the neighbourhood of Kai Tak Aerodrome, in the proposed cantonment area at Kowloon Tong on the outskirts of Kowloon, and elsewhere.
(d) Water supplies.
Mention has been made earlier in this Report of the com- pletion of the Shing Mun Jubilee Dam supplying water to Kowloon and Victoria townships. As might be expected with water works installed over a long period of years, the type and efficiency varies somewhat.
The water supply of Hong Kong which is under the control of the Water Department of the Public Works Department is obtained from impounding reservoirs having a combined maximum capacity of 5,971 million gallons and a combined drainage area of 10,536 acres or nearly sixteen and a half square miles.
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