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Thursday, May 18, 1972
When animal carcases have served the purpose of protecting the
lives of human beings, they are destroyed by burning in an incinerator on
the site.
The new institute will replace the existing vaccine institute in
Caine Lane built in 1905 and now considered obsolete.
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It cannot cope, for example, with sudden demands for large quantities
of vaccine in the event of an epidemic breaking out in Hong Kong against
which reserved storage of vaccines beyond a certain quantity is not practical
because vaccines such as those for smallpox, plague and cholera have only a
limited storage life.
In May 1958, a replacement institute was first considered, and in
1965, a site was found at Shek Pai Wan Road in Pok Fu Lan, but it was
abandoned because it would interfere with a proposed road-widening scheme.
The alternative site in Victoria Road was made available subsequently,
and construction of the buildings began in February 1971, the whole complex
taking 16 months to complete mainly because progress of the work was set
back following damage caused by last year's Typhoon Rose.
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