560
Table C.
(Repairs and Additions.)
Year.
No. completed.
Cancelled.
Total.
No. received.
In hand.
1st Quarter
2nd
54 5
名
54
5
1900,
>>
3rd
7
19
4th
16
57
147
99
24
107
16
123
1st Quarter,
27
27
75
2nd
32
32
86
1901,
"
3rd
37
37
60
4th
' 82
89
142
"
178
7
185
363
178
Total,..
285
23
308
510
202
Report of the Acting Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, for the year 1901.
SANITARY BOARD OFFICES,
HONGKONG, March 20th, 1902.
SIR,—I have the honour to submit, for the information of the Board, the following Report for the year 1901.
IMPORTATION OF LIVE STOCK.
Occasional cases of Foot-and-mouth Disease have been brought into the Colony to the Depôts during the year from the neighbouring mainland where the disease appears to be more or less endemic, but, by prompt isolation, a liberal use of disinfectants and frequent cleansing of the watering tanks, it has been possible to prevent any spread of the disease.
The quality of the animals brought into the Colony for slaughter has been much above the average during the past year, and this is probably due in part to the greater demand occasioned by the fact that Hongkong now supplies the Manila market.
ANIMAL DEPÔTS.
The total number of cattle admitted into the depôts at Kennedy Town during the year was 23,555, as compared with 20,801 during the previous year, while at the Hung Hom Depôt the admissions were 5,688, as compared with 5,348 during 1900. Five hundred and seventy-nine cattle were rejected as unfit for slaughtering purposes at Kennedy Town and 380 were rejected at Hung Hom.
The number of sheep and goats admitted to the Kennedy Town Depôts during the year was 28,818 while 180,377 swine were admitted, as compared with 153,765 during the previous year.
During the year, arrangements were made to close in all the sheep and swine depôts with iron-bars between the roofs and the top of the seven-foot enclosing walls thus preventing any possibility of theft. The accommodation for cattle is still very inadequate and provision should be made in the Estimates the ensuing year, for at least two additional cattle sheds, while a further shed for pigs will also be eded to keep pace with the rapid increase in the number of animals imported for slaughter.
It has also been proposed to build a Depôt and Slaughter House between Shaukiwan and Quarry Bay, and a site has already been selected, but the matter has, so far as I am aware, gone no further at present.
SLAUGHTER HOUSES.
Arrangements were made during the year for the Board to take over the entire control and man- agement of the Slaughter Houses at Kennedy Town from the first day of January, 1902, in lieu of the previous arrangement of leasing the collection of fees to a contractor, and an additional Inspector was also appointed from that date to assist the Inspector in charge in this work. I have every reason to believe that the new arrangement will work smoothly and will result in a considerable increase of revenue to the Government.
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