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(c) Public Latrines.

Latrine accommodation in most of the larger villages

and townships in the Leased Territories is lacking, inadequate or, for the most part, of unsuitable design.

Cement-lined, fly-proof, tank latrines divided into two halves to allow of maturation and sale by the local sanitary committee of the matured nightsoil to local farmers would be an asset in all the larger agglomerations of population.

(d) Incinerators or Indore Process Slabs.

Controlled composting by a modified Indore process to prevent nuisance from flies or odours, with means of incinera- tion of waste materials of no manurial value would, also, be of assistance in enriching the soil in the Leased Territories.

(e) Cemeteries.

There is a tendency for bodies to be buried without any regard to the possibility of contamination of catchment areas, streams, etc., or of sterilising building sites and agricultural land in the Leased Territories.

We consider that the time is overdue when public cemeteries satisfying the local "fung shui" should be developed and placed under responsible bodies like the sanitary committees.

(f) Water Supplies.

We urge the need for more effective exploitation of the potential water supplies in the Leased Territories whether by providing dams on hill-streams with piped supply to chlorination tanks, or by public wells with simple but effective means of rais- ing water without contamination by a multitude of buckets.

We understand that the water supply for Un Long may be an example of one that could be profitably developed for the benefit of the surrounding community.

E. PRIORITIES.

We have ventured to place in order of priority the various items which have been recommended for inclusion in the ten year programme for development of medical and public health faoi- lities. We are aware that circumstances may arise which may warrant some change in the order of urgency of the various items. For example, for one reason or another, a new general hospital may be completed on the Kowloon Medical Centre before the new infectious

diseases hospital is finished. In such a case, the projected chil- dren's hospital could fairly claim priority before the other items on our list.

F. FINANCE.

We have been unable to offer any close estimate for certain of the listed improvements.

In the case of first class hospitals like the new hos- pital which it is hoped may be built in Kowloon, the cost per bed is estimated at $6,400.- plus 20 per centum or $1,280,- for furni- ture and equipment whereas in second class hospitals like the tuber- culosis wings for the Chinese hospitals, we have adopted a figure of half this amount. Even so, it will be quite olear to the reader of this report that the capital cost of hospitals and similar

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