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UNDERTAKERS.
19. Two undertaker's licences were issued and two cancelled during the year making a total of 54 on the register up to 31st December, 1932.
GENERAL.
20. (i) Anti-spitting By-laws. Anti-spitting By-laws passed during the course of the year placed on the District Staff the special task of supervising the posting of approved permanent notices in all existing Eating Houses and other licensed premises and the recurrent task of seeing that all such premises licensed in the future are similarly provided.
(ii) Cholera. The application, as an anti-cholera measure, of the latent by-laws prohibiting the sale of cut and peeled fruit etc. imposed special duties on the Inspectorate during the summer months.
(iii) Anthrax.—A case of anthrax in a human having occurred in November of the previous year, departmental investigation secured the voluntary surrender of suspected consignment of shaving brushes. Suspicion having been confirmed by Bacteriological examination, the Governor in Council passed a regulation on 19th January, 1932, (under section 3 of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance, 1915) restricting importation of shaving brushes from the place of origin of this consignment.
(iv) Market. The new Sai Ying Pun market was opened on 1st May and the old market closed.
ANNEXES.
21. Reports by the Medical Officer of Health, the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon and the Secretary, Sanitary Board, will be found appended.
13th January, 1933.
G. R. SAYER,
Head of the Sanitary Department.