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organisations to the end that some means, other than imposing restrictions against a whole port, may be found to prevent the spread of infection.
The Organisation for the promotion and maintenance of the Public Health.
The Colony has no "municipality" in the ordinary accepted sense of the term, the Governor himself being head of the city and head of the port. A Legislative Council takes the place of a Municipal Council and the Colonial Heads of Department perform the duties which in a municipality would be performed by Municipal Heads of Department.
The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services is the official adviser to Government on all Medical and Sanitary matters. Under his direction come the Hospital Organisation, the Medical Inspection of Schools, the Inspection of all Chinese Hospitals and Dispensaries, the Organisation for Port Health Work, for Bacteriological Work, for Malaria Investigation, for the Manufacture of Vaccines and Sera and for Analytical Work of a Chemical Nature.
The Sanitary Department which is distinct from and independent of the Medical Department has at its head an Officer of the Cadet Service. This department is responsible for the work usually performed by the Health Department of a Municipality plus scavenging and conservancy.
There is a Sanitary Board composed of Officials and non-Officials whose powers and responsibilities are laid down in the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance 1903 and which acts as an advisory body to the Head of the Sanitary Department. The President is the Head of the Sanitary Department and the Vice-President is the Director of Public Works. The Board has no direct control over the Sanitary Department.
The functions and control of the Sanitary Board and the Sanitary Department as determined by the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance are limited to the Colony and that portion of the New Territories known as New Kowloon.
The present machinery for the promotion of the Public Health is complex in that the organisation of energy both for the cure and the prevention of disease is divided among a number of units, governmental and non-governmental, which operate more or less independently of one another. The following table shows the bodies concerned in the various operations and the authorities in control.