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# LEGISLATION.
The Board recommended that overcrowding in factories and workshops be controlled by the following by-law which was made by the Board on 24th June, 1919 :-
"(i) A factory or workshop shall be deemed to be so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the persons employed therein if the number of cubic feet of space or the number of square feet of area in the factory or workshop or in any room or sub-division of the factory or workshop bears to the number of persons employed at one time in such factory or workshop or in such room or sub-division respectively a proportion less than 250 cubic feet or during any period after 6 p.m. 400 cubic feet of space to every person, or at any time less than 20 square feet of floor area to every person.
(ii) The Board shall cause to be affixed in every factory and workshop a notice in English and Chinese specifying the number of persons who may be employed in each room or sub-division of the factory or workshop by virtue of the preceding by-law."
The Government however, deemed that the time for such legislation was inopportune and the by-laws were not finally approved.
# CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA.
No new cemeteries were opened in 1919.
During the year there were 550 exhumations from various cemeteries. The number of exhumations in 1918 was 1,099.
There were 67 cremations, 46 at the Japanese Crematorium, So Kon Po, and 21 at the Sikh Temple.
# DISEASES.
The most noteworthy infectious disease was an outbreak of a disease with choleräic symptoms. Where the cholera vibrio or its re-actions were found the disease was recorded as cholera and when the signs were insufficient to establish positively the disease as cholera the affection was called gastro enteritis. The question of the specific entity of the disease did not much concern this Department as all cases were treated as if they had been cholera and disinfected accordingly. The number of deaths registered from gastro enteritis were 339 and 46 from cholera.
The other diseases notified during the year were:- cerebro-spinal meningitis 269, plague 464, enteric fever 133, small-pox 27, diphtheria 50, puerperal fever 12, para-typhoid fever 3, and scarlet fever 7.
# POPULATION.
The last census was undertaken in 1911, but is no longer reliable and any estimate is largely guesswork.
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LEGISLATION.
The Board recommended that overcrowding in factories and workshops be controlled by the following by-law which was made by the Board on 24th June, 1919 :-
"(.) A factory or workshop shall be deemed to be so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the persons employed therein if the number of cubic feet of space or the number of square feet of area in the factory or workshop or in any room or sub-division of the factory or workshop bears to the number of persons employed at one time in such factory or workshop or in such room or sub-division respectively a proportion less than 250 cubic feet or during any period after 6 p.m. 400 cubic feet of space to every person, or at any time less than 20 square feet of floor area to every person.
(ii) The Board shall cause to be affixed in every factory and workshop a notice in English and Chinese specifying the number of persons who may be em- ployed in each room or sub-division of the factory or workshop by virtue of the preceding by-law."
The Government however, deemed that the time for such legislation was inopportune and the by-laws were not finally approved.
CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA.
No new cemeteries were opened in 1919.
During the year there were 550 exhumations from various cemeteries. The number of exhumations in 1918 was 1,099.
There were 67 cremations, 46 at the Japanese Crematorium, So Kon Po, and 21 at the Sikh Temple.
DISEASES.
The most noteworthy infectious disease was an outbreak of a disease with choleräic symptoms. Where the cholera vibrio or its re-actions were found the disease was recorded as cholera and when the signs were insufficient to establish positively the disease as cholera the affection was called gastro enteritis. The question of the specific entity of the disease did not much concern this Depart- ment as all cases were treated as if they had been cholera and disinfected accordingly. The number of deaths registered from gastro enteritis were 339 and 46 from cholera.
The, other diseases notified during the year were:-cerebro- spinal meningitis 269, plague 464. enteric fever 133, small-pox 27, diphtheria 50, puerperal fever 12, para-typhoid fever 3, and scarlet fever 7.
POPULATION.
The last census was undertaken in 1911, but is no longer reliable and any estimate is largely guesswork.
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