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(3) work under the Adulterated Food Ordinance.
(4) work under the Public Health (Animals and Birds) Ordinance.
(c) The Public Works Department is responsible for surveys, town planning, streets and roads, buildings and building construction, drainage and sewerage, water works, harbour works and crown lands.
21. Administrative control exercised by the Urban Council is carried out through a number of select committees each consisting of two or more members of the Council. The select committees examine proposals put up in a finished form by the Secretary and containing the comments of inspecting officers where such are necessary. The proposals are finally examined by the full council and passed or rejected. As the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Inspector General of Police and the Director of Public Works are members of the Council there is every likelihood of proposals receiving the full consideration of all departments concerned.
22. The scheme represents for Hong Kong the organisation which has proved successful in municipalities such as Glasgow and Toronto modified to suit local conditions and local opinion. If carried out fully by each department concerned working in a spirit of sympathetic co-operation it should give complete satisfaction.
The effect of the Financial Depression.
23. The financial depression which commenced in 1930 and which has con- tinued ever since delayed progress very considerably and a number of things which otherwise would have been done had to wait until the return of better times. A new mental hospital, a new infectious diseases hospital, a leper asylum, much needed extension to the Kowloon hospital, urgently required accommodation and equipment for radiological work and a teaching health centre near the University could not be provided. Proposals for increase of staff had to be very carefully scrutinised. Provision for the emoluments of a Senior Health Officer, a post essential for the proper running of the scheme, was cut out of the estimates. With regard to the New Territories health expansion scheme proposals to erect a cottage hospital at Un Long and dispensaries at Tsun Wan and Cheung Chau had to be abandoned. The dispensary launch intended for the treatment of the sick of the 100,000 living in boats could not be built.
Progress.
24. In spite of the serious handicap of shortage of funds considerable progress has been made in a number of directions as the following will show.
Buildings.
25. The Queen Mary Hospital, an institution with accommodation for five hundred has been erected to take the place of the old and out of date Government Civil Hospital. Situated on the South side of the Island five hundred feet above sea level and in open surroundings it commands an uninterrupted view of the sea and islands lying to south and west. The site is sufficiently high to catch the summer breezes yet low enough to escape the hill fogs which are so prevalent in the summer months.
The refusal to allow the Queen Mary Hospital to be paid from a loan such as was allowed for the new gaol and the new water works caused considerable embarrassment. Something like a million a year had to be spent from revenue to meet the expenses of the building, and items desirable in a hospital but not essential had to be left out.
26. The Kowloon Hospital has been increased since 1929 by-
(a) one double storied general block of 48 beds.
(b) one double storied Maternity block of 34 beds.