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Appointments:- Dr. J. B. Mackie was appointed Medical Officer on 20th December, 1930 and arrived in the Colony on 20th January, 1931.
Dr. (Mrs.) A. R. S. D. McElney was appointed Assistant Visiting Medical Officer to Chinese Hospitals and Dispensaries on 1st February.
Dr. H. L. Clift was appointed temporary Health Officer on 2nd November.
Mr. J. L. Tetley was appointed Assistant Analyst on 23rd January and arrived in the Colony on 26th February.
Resignation:- Dr. (Mrs.) A. L. J. Dovey resigned on 31st January.
Retirement:- Dr. E. P. Minett retired on 25th October.
Invaliding:- Dr. B. H. Mellon was invalided on 18th December.
The University Clinic and the Government Civil Hospital.
46. Dating from the 1st of April 1930 His Excellency the Governor appointed the Clinical Professors of the University (already consultants to Government) to be respectively Surgeon, Physician and Obstetric Physician to the Government Civil Hospital. Later it was arranged that from January 1932 each professor would receive from Government an allowance for the duties performed. The professors, so far as their work in the Government Civil Hospital is concerned, hold the same rank and position they would hold were they Government servants and members of the Medical Department.
List of Ordinances Affecting the Public Health Enacted during the year.
47. The Ordinances affecting the public health which were enacted during the year were:—
(i) The Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Ordinance.
(ii) The Vaccination Amendment Ordinance.
(iii) The Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance.
(iv) The Nurses Registration Ordinance.
48. The object of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance was principally to transfer the title of Registrar from the Head of the Sanitary Department to the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.