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As for the heall / phoquane.

Medical and Health

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û. The 1974

In July 1974 the Hong Kong Government published a ten-year White Paper. The main proposal is a target of 5.5 hospital beds per thousand population by 1983 (at present there are 4.1 beds per thousand population). This compares with about 9 per thousand in the United Kingdom.

Social Welfare

6. Expenditure/will increase by about 80% between 1974 and

1978. This will be through a continued and expanded public assistance scheme; disability and infirmity allowances; and emergency relief.

The his also mention

Education and referred to the

7.

The

-new ten-year programme announced in October 1974. main objective is to provide by 1979, nine years' subsidised education for every child up to the age of 14. In the senior secondary classes the aim is to provide places for 40% of the 15-16 year age group by 1979. This programme will remove one of the main criticisms of the educational system in Hong Kong, that children who have completed their primary schooling at the age of 12 have been left in limbo because there were no secondary school

places for them and because they could not legally start work in industrial undertakings until the age of 14.

Recently, there has be

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condiliar.

Labour firs

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I The average industrial (daily) wage of about £2 a day in Hong Kong compares for example with 200 m. people in India with a

income

monthly of less than £2. There is a large Labour Department in Hong Kong with an active programme of legislation. three important measures were introduced:

(a)

(b)

During 1974

Protection of workers against acts of anti-union

discrimination

Severance pay for workers who become redundant or are discharged through no fault of their own.

Reduction of working hours for women and young persons.

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