Pharmacy Bourd
47. The Board met four times for the transaction of routine business. There were fifteen applications for registration of which two were accepted without examination; four applicants were accepted after pass- ing the Board's examinations and nine were required to undergo further practical training in the Colony before being allowed to enter for the examinations.
48. Following representations made by the Board. Government agreed to the provision of a limited number of scholarships for the study of pharmacy in Australia. One such scholarship was awarded during the year.
Nursing Board
49. The Nurses Registration Ordinance, 1961, and the Nurses (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure) Regulations, 1961, were en- acted in July. This has brought up to date the law governing the training, examination and registration of nurses and has made comprehensive provision for disciplinary procedures in line with that for doctors, dentists and midwives.
50. There were four meetings of the Nursing Board, the main business conducted being in connexion with examinations in general nursing and psychiatric nursing. Examinations were held in June and December with the following results:
General Nursing
Preliminary Examinations
Final Examination
Psychiatric Nursing
Preliminary Examinations
Entered Possed
433
282
233
158
12
14
51.
There were 200 applicants for registration as General Nurses of whom 177 were accepted; 162 of these nurses were from the approved Training Schools in Hong Kong and a further 15 nurses trained outside the Colony were accepted without examination. Of the remaining appli- cants 9 were required to sit the Final Examinations, & were advised to take a full year's course of training at an approved Training School and 6 were required to undergo further practical training before entering for the final examinations. Six applications for re-registration were approved.
52.
The Preliminary Investigation Committee met once to consider a disciplinary charge but found no grounds for an inquiry by the Board.
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Midwives Board
53. This Board also meets quarterly and examinations are held in April, July, October and January. A total of 163 candidates entered for the Boards examination of whom 155 passed.
54. There were 157 applications for registration and 155 were accepted: 152 of the applicants had completed their training in Hong Kong. Two applications for restoration to the Register were approved. 55. The Preliminary Investigation Committee met on one occasion but found no cause for a disciplinary inquiry.
Radiarion Board
$6. There were three meetings during the year, the main business being consideration of the draft Radiation (Control of Radioactive Sub- stances) Regulations. These Regulations, which are complementary to the draft Radiation (Control of Irradiating Apparatus) Regulations, are designed to replace existing regulations (which deal only with industrial undertakings) and to extend control to all undertakings which manu- facture, store or handle radioactive substances,
57. These two sets of Regulations, taken together, will cover the field of control considered necessary at the present time in relation to radiation hazards.
Medical Advisory Board
58. This is a non-Statutory Board appointed by His Excellency the Governor. Reconstituted on the 1st July, 1961, its terms of reference are 'To advise the Governor on any matters of medical and health policy referred to the Board by the Director of Medical and Health Services". There were three meetings during the year at which the Medical and Health Services Development Plan covering the period 1961 to 1972 was considered in detail.
11. PUBLIC HEALTH
GENERAL COMMENTS
59. For the first time in 15 years Hong Kong was declared a cholera infected area on the 16th August, 1961. Despite the overcrowding, limited water supplies, inadequate housing and lack of modern sanitation in large parts of the urban area, the attack rate was very low and the outbreak was quickly contained.
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