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MR. SALES: -Mr. Chairman, Sir, may I ask our own colleague Mr. Wilfred WONG to answer that supplementary, in case you don't find it possible to do so? (Laughter).
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES: —Mr. Chairman, the subjects mentioned by Dr. Woo are normally included under B of paragraph 3, in connexion with Communicable and Infectious Diseases, and the lectures are given by one of the Government pathologists.
DR. Woo: -Mr. Chairman, you remember when you visited the Central Market, the officer in charge of training told me he was in charge of giving lectures on Bacteriology and Parasitology but he is a layman, he is not a doctor, he is not a medical man.
The answer given me is these subjects were given by a Medical Officer?
CHAIRMAN: --Sir, my recollection is that the Chief Health Inspector (Training) enjoys the very distinguished name of Mr. Bernard SHAW (Laughter) and I don't think he feels himself incapable of telling anyone anything. (Laughter).
DR. WOO: Is it true that he is giving lectures on these subjects?
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES: —Mr. Chairman, I see no reason why he should not give lectures on parasitology, but bacteriology I would rather see given by a doctor. I am not aware of this particular incident, Mr. Chairman, or exactly what he was talking about at the time.
DR. WOO: -I asked him who gave lectures on these subjects.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES: -I will find out, Mr. Chairman.
DR. WOO: -I would have thought that this subject would be taught by a Hong Kong University man rather than by a man with no medical knowledge.
CHAIRMAN: --May I say, Sir, that we will look into the matter and let you know later. (Laughter).
MR. SALES: -I would like to register my protest. I do not subscribe to the fact that a person has to be qualified registrable (Laughter) to have medical knowledge. We have a perfect example
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in this Council of a most knowledgeable colleague whose qualifications cannot be registered. (Laughter).
DR. BELL: -Mr. Chairman, if nobody is going to ask you about vital statistics, would you please enlarge on that a little? (Laughter).
MR. CHEONG-LEEN: -Mr. Chairman, is Dr. BELL referring to members of the Council?
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES: -Mr. Chairman, vital statistics are statistics concerned with life. (Laughter).
MR. CHEONG-LEEN: -Mr. Chairman, with life in a medical sense, or in a layman's sense?
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES: -In a statistical sense.
MR. CHEONG-LEEN: -Then I don't understand the answer.
DR. BELL: -Mr. Chairman, perhaps it had never occurred to Mr. CHEONG-LEEN that there were any other kind of vital statistics except the ones he is interested in as a layman.
MR. CHEONG-LEEN: -By way of clarification, Sir, that is the most obvious. (Laughter).
CHAIRMAN: -May I rise on a point of clarification and say that when Dr. Woo and the Honourable Mr. FUNG Hon-chu and I visited the training centre on the top of the Central Market—I don't know what Dr. Woo thought, or the Honourable Mr. FUNG thought—but I was very impressed by the enthusiasm and the competence with which this training was being conducted.
MR. FUNG: -I have the pleasure in supporting that statement.
MR. BERNACCHI: -If there are no more supplementaries to Question No. 8, I rise to ask Question No. 9.
(9) MR. B. A. BERNACCHI asked the following question: —
(a) Did not this Council pass Mrs. ELLIOTT's motion concerning threats of deportation against law-abiding citizens at our February Public Meeting?
(b) Therefore why has she been individually censured by the Honourable Colonial Secretary?
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