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Annexe B.
JOINT REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL CIVIL MEDICAL OFFICER AND THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
AREA,
The Sanitary Board's control extends over the island of Hongkong which has an area of about 32 square miles, and to that portion of the mainland between the shore and the range of Kowloon Hills extending from the village of Tseung Kwan O in Junk Bay on the East to the village of Kau Pa Kang on the West, with a seaboard of about 13 miles and an area of about 16 square miles.
This area includes "Old Kowloon" which has been British since 1861 and has an area of about 24 square miles and a portion of the New Territories leased to this Government in 1898.
The remainder of the New Territories, about 266 square miles is outside the Board's jurisdiction.
The City of Victoria situated on the northern side of the island has a frontage on the sea of nearly five miles, and is separated by the harbour from the Kowloon portion of the Colony.
The domestic buildings in Victoria number 10,039 (exclusive of barracks and police stations) of which 805 are non-Chinese; there are also 187 dwellings in the Hill District. The number of houses completed during the year was as follows: -- Victoria 154, Kowloon 219, Outlying Districts and Peak 28, making a total of 401 as compared with 419 in 1919. There were also erected 92 miscellaneous buildings such as godowns, offices, etc.
ADMINISTRATION,
The City of Victoria is divided into ten principal Health Districts, and Old Kowloon into five such with an inspector in charge of each.
In addition four inspectors are engaged in supervising scavenging and conservancy, and the upkeep of the dust carts, boats, etc., used on this work.
In the outlying districts sanitary work is supervised by the police officers of the districts except in Shaukiwan where the work is done in connection with that of No. 1 Health District.
The Inspectors in Hongkong work under the direction of the Medical Officer of Health, and in Kowloon under that of the Assistant Medical Officer of Health.
GENERAL SANITARY CONDITIONS.
The demand for more houses has been as apparent during 1920 as in former recent years, and there is obviously still a deal of surface crowding.