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the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital and the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, in all of which the medium of instruction is Cantonese. Examinations are held by the Hong Kong Nursing Board and there is full reciprocity of registration between the Hong Kong Board and the General Nursing Council of England and Wales.
Most female nurses on completion of their general nursing training take a midwifery course of one year, which qualifies them for entry to the examinations held by the Hong Kong Midwives Board. The course is conducted in English at government hospitals and in Cantonese at the other approved schools. For student midwives who are not registered nurses, a two-year course of training at the Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital (and to a limited extent at the other approved training schools) is accepted by the Midwives Board for entry to the examinations. Due to the limited scope of domiciliary midwifery, adequate practical training in this aspect cannot be given and full reciprocity of registration with the Central Midwives Board of England and Wales is therefore not possible in present circumstances.
The examination board in Hong Kong of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health conducts examinations for the health visitor's certificate, the public health inspector's certificate and the tropical hygiene certificate. A course for the health visitor's certificate is conducted by the Medical and Health Department, while training for the public health inspector's certificate and the tropical hygiene certificate is carried out within the Urban Services Department.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
The Urban Council has statutory obligations in the urban area 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 their enforcement, and the maintenance of certain places of public recreation-principally parks, playgrounds and bathing beaches.
The Council derives its main powers from the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance 1960, and legislation is enforced through the Urban Services Department. The Director of Urban Services is directly responsible for similar public health measures