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membership of the Society of Radiographers, which are also held locally.
Other Training. Departmental training leading to study leave abroad for recognized qualifications is given to physicists and medical laboratory technologists. In-service training for depart- mental examinations is available for dispensers and laboratory technicians. A qualified physiotherapy tutor supervises a training centre in physiotherapy based on the curriculum of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists. There is also provision for a limited number of pharmacy scholarships tenable in Australia, under which students are sent to study for the degree of B Pharm. A scheme for training surgical appliance technicians was started during the year.
URBAN SERVICES
The Urban Council has statutory obligations in the urban areas of the Colony for environmental sanitation and hygiene; the public health control of food; the enactment, subject to the approval of the Legislative Council, of by-laws relating to public health and hygiene, and for their enforcement; the maintenance of certain places of public recreation, principally parks, playgrounds and bathing beaches; and the operation of multi-storey car parks and the City Hall.
The Council derives its main powers from the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, and by-laws enacted thereunder. It is responsible, through the Urban Services Department, for the enforcement of this legislation within the urban areas of the Colony. The department has a staff of 9,880 and is organized for adminis- trative purposes into three main divisions. One deals with clean- sing, conservancy, cemeteries and crematoria, one with food and general hygiene, and the other with hawkers, markets, slaughter- houses and public amenities. Most of these divisional responsibili- ties have been extended to the New Territories and, for the purpose of co-ordinating activities, a separate division has been set up under the control of an Assistant Superintendent of Urban Services. On the establishment of the department there are 326 adminis- trative, professional, executive and clerical officer posts, excluding the health inspectorate which consists of 348 officers, of whom 275