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LABOUR CONDITIONS.
The general industrial conditions continued to improve and the labour situation was normal. There are no estates, plantations or mines in the Colony. Practically all the labouring class are engaged in matters connected with commerce, shipping or public works.
Labourers find their own accommodation in the many tenements and lodging houses which exist in Hong Kong or Kowloon,
What factory regulations there are, are administered by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
There are no special arrangements for the medical care of labourers other than the Government Hospitals, the Chinese Hospitals, the Mission Hospitals and the Chinese Public Dispensaries. The total number of beds available for general diseases is about 1,000 making a proportion of:-
1,000
1,000,000
or 1 to 1,000 approximately.
HOUSE AND TOWN PLANNING.
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 and blacksmiths shops or even foundries are to be found in the midst of shop houses and domestic houses.
By inter-departmental arrangements the Medical Officer of Health scrutinises the plans of new buildings, but there is nothing in the law which says that this must be so.
The following List shows some of the work done during the year by the buildings branch of the P.W.D.
Nature of Work. No. of cases. 1. Obstructions removed from open spaces 120 2. Obstructions to light and ventilation removed... 1,182 3. Rat runs filled in 769 4. Water closets installed in private buildings...... 2,211 5. Houses demolished (domestic) 50 6. Houses demolished (non-domestic) 13 7. Houses erected (domestic) 983 8. Houses erected (non-domestic) 18M 42
LABOUR CONDITIONS.
The general industrial conditions continued to improve and the labour situation was normal. There are no estates, planta- tions or mines in the Colony. Practically all the labouring class are engaged in matters connected with commerce, shipping or public works.
Labourers find their own accommodation in the many tenements and lodging houses which exist in Hong Kong or Kowloon,
What factory regulations there are, are administered by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
There are no special arrangements for the medical care of labourers other than the Government Hospitals, the Chinese Hospitals, the Mission Hospitals and the Chinese Public Dispensaries. The total number of beds available for general diseases is about 1,000 making a proportion of:-
1,000
1,000,000
or 1 to 1,000 approximately.
HOUSE AND TOWN PLANNING.
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 and blacksmiths shops or even foundries are to be found in the midst of shop houses and domestic houses.
By inter-departmental arrangements the Medical Officer of Health scrutinises the plans of new buildings, but there is nothing in the law which says that this must be so.
The following List shows some of the work done during the year by the buildings branch of the P.W.D.
Nature of Work.
1. Obstructions removed from open spaces
No. of cases.
120
2. Obstructions to light and ventilation removed... 1,182 3. Rat runs filled in
769
4. Water closets installed in private buildings...... 2,211
5. Houses demolished (domestic)
50
6. Houses demolished (non-domestic)
7. Houses erected (domestic) 8. Houses erected (non-domestic)
13
983
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