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number of girls being education was also higher in total, although the percentage to total enrolment was rather smaller than in the previous year.
(9) As a result of the new regulations on sanitation the work of the school hygiene branch of the Medical Department, which was increased by one sanitary inspector, expanded greatly, the total number of inspections being 1416 as against 432 in 1938.
The year was also marked by development and extension in physical training. There was an increase of nearly 100 per cent in the figures for enrolment of Boy Scouts for the year and Girl Guide enrolments increased by 50 per cent.
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This report, though somewhat belated, is not without interest and records several laudable developments. I have little to add to the points set out in
Mr. Monson's minute of 15.7.41 and in Mr. Burney's note at No. 2 and suggest that a short despatch might go forward (a) expressing the Secretary of State's satisfaction at the progress made in various directions and (b) drawing attention to certain apparent short- comings.
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Under (a) might be included the opening of the Teachers' Training College, the re-organisation of the Junior Technical School and expansion of the Government Trade School, the evidence of improvement in education as a whole as recorded on page five of the report, introduction of a new set of regulations (based on Mr. Burney's Report), prescribing more satisfactory standards of sanitation and laying down minimum qualifications for teachers of English, the encourage- ment given to female education, e.g. by the employment of domestic science specialists, the acceptance of the Hong Kong School Certificate as the principal school leaving examination and the impetus given to physical training, (Chapter IX (b)), concerning which the A.C.E.C. has evinced particular interest in recent years.
The Hong Kong Government's attention might be drawn, under (b), to the large proportion of pupils (see particularly Chapter IVSI.(iii) and II (a) together
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