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197. The School Medical Officer has established at headquarters the beginnings of a health museum where are to be found posters, leaflets, pamphlets, lantern slides, etc., etc.
LABOUR CONDITIONS.
198. There are no estates, plantations or mines and comparatively few large factories. The majority of the urban labouring classes are engaged in matters connected with commerce, shipping or public works and the bulk of the remainder find employment in shops or workshops or independent businesses. There is no need for recruitment of labour, the supply being sufficient to satisfy all demands.
199. Labourers find their own accommodation in the many tenements and lodging houses which exist in Hong Kong and Kowloon.
200. There is no Factory and Workshop Ordinance but the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance contains sections bearing on the health of factory workers.
201. There are no special arrangements for the medical care of labourers other than the Government Hospitals, the Chinese Hospitals, the Chinese Dispensaries and the Mission Hospitals. The total number of third-class beds in these institutions available for general diseases are about 1,000 or 1 to 750 approximately.
HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING.
202. There is no Town Planning Ordinance and Housing comes under that portion of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance which is administered by the Public Works Department. There is little or no zoning in the older parts of the Colony and blacksmiths shops or even foundries are to be found in the midst of shop houses and domestic houses. Zones recommended by the Town Planning Committee of 1923 are being worked to in the new development areas on the mainland.
203. By inter-departmental arrangement the Medical Officer of Health scrutinises the plans of new buildings but there is nothing in the law which states this must be so.
204. The following list shows some of the work done during the year by the building branch of the P.W.D.
Nature of Work No. of cases 1931 1. Obstructions removed from open spaces 190 2. Obstructions to light and ventilation removed 305 124 814 1,182