堅尼地城鼠疫墳場 The Plague Cemetery, Kennedy Town

The outbreak of Plague in Hong Kong took away approximately 2,500 lives in the city. As the transmission routes of plague remained unclear in the early stage of the outbreak, the British Hong Kong government designated a particular area on Mount Davis as the cemetery, that is the relic now to segregate the infected dead bodies from the others to prevent the continuity of the widespread until 1904.

While they could not manage to know the characteristics of Plague that time, they assumed that burial was the most suitable solution of the infected dead bodies. In accordance with their standardized burial procedures, every infected body should be covered with a layer of lime powder before putting into their own coffin, another lime powder layer pouring on the coffin was necessary. The coffins should be placed in an at least 9-inch depth tomb, to ensure the coffins would not reveal from the ground.

The cemetery closed and renovated to Kennedy Town for the sake of the construction of the Mount Davis Cottage Area to settle the influx of people in 1952, and later demolished in 2002. The original site of the cemetery remained disused till now.