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Removal. Some 143,041 tons (or 391.8 tons per day) were received at the depots. The difference between this figure and the figure shewn as collected is due to a large quantity of refuse taken to the depots by private firms and individuals. Practic- ally all the refuse from the City of Victoria was taken to sea and dumped.
A new refuse depot was opened at Shaukiwan on the 15th June, 1933,, and two new sailing barges put into service. The incinerator at Shaukiwan was then closed and all the refuse conveyed by barge to the Ma Tau Kok Dump.
The dump at Cheung Sha Wan was closed on the 30th November, 1933, and from then on all refuse was conveyed to Ma Tau Kok.
All Kowloon refuse was dumped at either Cheung Sha Wan or Ma Tau Kok.
Cost. The cost of refuse collection and removal is shown in Table IV.
NIGHTSOIL REMOVAL.
11. The contractors for the removal of nightsoil from Vic- toria and the Kowloon Peninsula, Shaukiwan, Aberdeen, Pok- fulam and Aplichau, and Stanley and Taitam respectively, carried out their work satisfactorily.
DISINFECTION AT DISINFECTING STATIONS.
12. Table V shows the number of articles and vehicles disinfected during the year 1933. The figures for 1932 are given for comparison. The use of portable Sack' disinfectors has been continued.
DEAD BOXES AND AMBULANCES.
13. Dead Boxes are obtainable at any hour of the day or night at the two Disinfecting Stations and also by day at the Eastern and Western District Sanitary Offices.
14. The Department maintains a reserve of hand ambu- lances on behalf of the Public Ambulance Service controlled by the Inspector-General of Police.
15. Table VI shows calls made during the year.
PUBLIC BATH HOUSES.
16. Table VII shows the number of men, women and children who used the Bath-Houses during the years 1932 and 1933.
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CEMETERIES, MORTUARIES, CREMATORIA.
17. Table VIII (i) shows the number of interments at the various cemeteries during the year 1933.
18. Table VIII (ii) shows the number of general exhuma- tions carried out at the public expense, and Table VIII (iii) shows the number of exhumations carried out by relatives of the deceased.
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Table VIII (iv) gives particulars of cremations, bodies deposited in the Tung Wah Hospital Mortuary, and removals from the Colony before burial.
UNDERTAKERS.
20. Three undertaker's licences were issued and three can- celled during the year making a total of fifty-four on the regis- ter up to 31st December, 1933.
ANNEXES.
21. Reports by the Medical Officer of Health, the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon and the Secretary, Sanitary Board, will be found appended.
9th February, 1934.
T. MEGARRY, Head of the Sanitary Department.
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