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43. The following is a summary of the recommendations made:-
(1) That the present cumbersome and inconvenient Public Health and Buildings Ordinance be split into a number of Ordinances each dealing with its own particular sphere of public health activities.
(2) That the Sanitary Department confine its attention to sanitation in its restricted sense and deal with town cleansing, scavenging, conservancy, etc., etc.
(3) That the Medical and Health Department consist of five branches, viz., medical, health, laboratory, quaran- tine, and veterinary, all under one administrative head, the Director of Medical and Health Services.
(4) That the urban areas of Victoria and Kowloon be divided into health districts of approximately 100,000 inhabit- ants each under a District Health Officer who, in his own district, would be responsible for:-
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(a) Registration of Births and Deaths and compilation
of statistics.
(b) House visiting and public health propaganda and
education.
(c) Maternity and Child Welfare.
(d) School Welfare.
(e) Industrial Welfare.
(f) Dispensary treatment for disease.
(g) Food control,
(h) Antimosquito measures.
(1) Infectious disease control.
(5) That there be a Public Health Advisory Board whose duty it would be to consider all matters of public health importance and advise Government on matters of public health policy.
(6) That there be hospital accommodation to the extent of one bed per 300 population for general cases and one bed per 3,000 population for infectious disease cases. (7) That there be a motor travelling dispensary for the New
Territories, Northern Division.
(8) That there be a dispensary launch for the needs of the
100,000 who live in boats.
44. The Sanitary Board accepted all the recommendations with the proviso that the Sanitary Board should be expanded and perform the functions of the proposed Public Health Advi- sory Board.
45. The Public Health Committee having been dissolved the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services was instructed to con- fer with the Attorney General in order that legislation prepared on the lines recommended in the report might be submitted to Government. At the end of the year legislation was still in course of preparation,
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SECTION 1.
ADMINISTRATION.
STAFF.
46. The total authorised establishment of the Medical De- partment for the year 1932 was as follows:-
Head Quarters Staff.
Director of Medical and Sanitary Services Deputy Director of Medical and Sanitary Services...
Health Division.
Health Officers
Chinese Health Officer
Port Health Officers and Inspectors of Emigrants Chinese Port Health Officers
Venereal Diseases Officer
Medical Officer for Schools
Chinese Medical Officer for Schools
Lady Medical Officer for Infant Welfare
Visiting Medical Officer for Chinese Hospitals and
Dispensaries
Assistant Medical Officer for Chinese Hospitals
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
3
12
Medical Division.
and Dispensaries
Interpreter Infant Welfare Centre
Infant Welfare Nurse
School Nurses Vaccinators
Senior Medical Officer Medical Officers Chinese Medical Officers House Officers Radiologist Radiographer Masseuses
3
Investigative Division.
1
Government Bacteriologist
Assistant Bacteriologist
*1 Post vacant.
3*
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