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# VACCINATION
(i) Under Ordinance 2 of 1890 all resident children over 6 months and under 14 years are required to be vaccinated, and their parents or guardians to deliver a certificate of (successful) vaccination to the office at which the birth was registered. Appendix H shows the various birth registries, the number of children whose births were registered but who on 31st December, 1922 were under six months, the number of new registered births during the year 1923, the number (successfully) vaccinated, the number accounted for by death, unfitness, or other causes and the number who on 31st December, 1923, were under six months and accordingly not liable for vaccination. Vaccination is not compulsory between 1st May and 30th September owing to the hot weather.
The number of successful vaccinations compares favourably with the figures for the previous year but the recent epidemic indicates that a very large number of parents fail to get their children vaccinated and the exemption allowed during the hot months is only too readily seized in spite of definite warnings by the Board.
The cause is to be sought not in any dislike of vaccination but in an unwillingness to take any steps unless the trouble involved is reduced to a minimum. It is not improbable also that many have not the time to spare.
(ii) Owing to indications, which have not been falsified, of a severe small-pox epidemic in the latter end of the year a special campaign was again undertaken by this Department opening on November 1st and still proceeding at the close of the year. Up to December 31st some 330,000 people or fully 50% of the resident population of Victoria and Kowloon peninsula were vaccinated free of charge at a total cost of about $13,000.
(The proportion of successful operations appears to have been very satisfactory).
# SCAVENGING
Approximately 250 tons of refuse were received daily at the refuse depôts from the City of Victoria, Hill District and Kowloon peninsula. Slightly under 10 tons daily were collected from Shaukiwan and Quarry Bay and 2 tons from Kowloon City and dumped on waste ground. The cost of the service in Hongkong (including Shaukiwan and Quarry Bay) and Kowloon is shown in Appendix I attached. Table 3 shows a comparison with last year. The total cost has risen from $1.11 per ton to $1.25. The increase is due partly to the introduction of 2 motor lorries and partly to...
M 9
VACCINATION,
(i) Under Ordinance 2 of 1890 all resident children over 6 months and under 14 years are required to be vaccinated, and their parents or guardians to deliver a certificate of (successful) vaccination to the office if any at which the birth was registered. Appendix H shows the various birth registries, the number of children whose births were registered but who on 31st December, 1922 were under six months, the number of new registered births during the year 1923, the number (successfully) vaccinated, the number accounted for by death, unfitness, or other causes and the number who on 31st December, 1923, were under six months and accordingly not liable for vaccination. Vaccination is not compulsory between 1st May and 30th September owing to the hot weather.
The number of successful vaccinations compares favourably with the figures for the previous year but the recent epidemic indicates that a very large number of parents fail to get their children vaccinated and the exemption allowed during the hot months is only too readily seized in spite of definite warnings by the Board.
The cause is to be sought not in any dislike of vaccination but in an unwillingness to take any steps unless the trouble involved is reduced to a minimum. It is not improbable also that many have not the time to spare.
(ii) Owing to indications, which have not been falsified, of a severe small-pox epidemic in the latter end of the year a special campaign was again undertaken by this Department opening in November 1st and still proceeding at the close of the year. Up to December 31st some 330,000 people or fully 50 % of the resident population of Victoria and Kowloon peninsula were vaccinated free of charge at a total cost of about $13,000.
(The proportion of successful operations appears to have been very satisfactory).
SCAVENGING.
Approximately 250 tons of refuse were received daily at the refuse depôts from the City of Victoria, Hill District and Kowloon peninsula. Slightly under 10 tons daily were collected from Shaukiwan and Quarry Bay and 2 tons from Kowloon City and dumped on waste ground. The cost of the service in Hongkong (including Shaukiwan and Quarry Bay) and Kowloon is shown in Appendix I attached. Table 3 shows a comparison with last year. The total cost has risen from $1.11 per ton to $1.25. The increase is due partly to the introduction of 2 motor lorries and partly to
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