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Rickets.-No cases were treated in the Government Hospitals. Most Chinese infants are breast fed until they are at least a year old. Rickets is seldom mentioned as a cause of infant death.
Scurvy.-No cases were treated in the Government Hospitals.
Markets. The markets come under the Sanitary Department. The Central and Western Markets are supervised by a special Overseer who is responsible to the Veterinary Surgeon; the other markets are supervised by the District Sanitary Inspectors.
Slaughter Houses.-Slaughter Houses and Animal Depôts are controlled by the Sanitary Department. There is a Government depôt at Kennedy Town (Hong Kong) for the reception of all cattle, sheep, swine and goats brought into the Colony for slaughter. The Government Slaughter Houses are situated at Kennedy Town (Hong Kong) and at Ma Tau Kok (Kowloon). There are Government controlled slaughter houses at Aberdeen and Sai Wan Ho.
The Government depôt and slaughter houses are under the direct charge of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon and Assistant Colonial Veterinary Surgeon and a staff of four Inspectors.
Dairies. There is a model Dairy-farm in Hong Kong where milk is produced by stall fed cattle under hygienic conditions.
TRAINING OF SANITARY PERSONNEL.
The Medical Officers of Health and the Chief Sanitary Inspector hold classes and give lectures but there is as yet no regular school for teaching such as exists in Singapore.
Hong Kong is an examination centre for the Royal Sanitary Institute and every year examinations are held for the Sanitary Inspectors Certificate, for the Sanitary Science Certificate and for the Meat and Food Certificate. Candidates come from as far as Shanghai to take these examinations. The results of the last two tests have, so far as Hong Kong candidates are concerned, been decidedly disappointing and one of the reasons for the high percentage of failures is the absence of a proper school of training.
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Rickets.-No cases were treated in the Government Hospitals. Most Chinese infants are breast fed until they are at least a year old. Rickets is seldom mentioned as a cause of infant death.
Scurvy.-No cases were treated in the Government Hospitals.
Markets. The markets come under the Sanitary Depart- ment. The Central and Western Markets are supervised by a special Overseer who is responsible to the Veterinary Surgeon; the other markets are supervised by the District Sanitary Inspectors.
Slaughter Houses.-Slaughter Houses and Animal Depôts are controlled by the Sanitary Department. There is a Govern- ment depôt at Kennedy Town (Hong Kong) for the reception of all cattle, sheep, swine and goats brought into the Colony for slaughter. The Government Slaughter Houses are situated at Kennedy Town (Hong Kong) and at Ma Tau Kok (Kowloon). There are Government controlled slaughter houses at Aberdeen and Sai Wan Ho.
The Government depôt and slaughter houses are under the direct charge of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon and Assistant Colonial Veterinary Surgeon and a staff of four Inspectors.
Dairies. There is a model Dairy-farm in Hong Kong where milk is produced by stall fed cattle under hygienic conditions.
TRAINING OF SANITARY PERSONNEL.
The Medical Officers of Health and the Chief Sanitary Inspector hold classes and give lectures but there is as yet no regular school for teaching such as exists in Singapore.
Hong Kong is an examination centre for the Royal Sanitary Institute and every year examinations are held for the Sanitary Inspectors Certificate, for the Sanitary Science Certificate and for the Meat and Food Certificate. Candidates come from as far as Shanghai to take these examinations. The results of the last two tests have, so far as Hong Kong candidates are concern- ed, been decidedly disappointing and one of the reasons for the high percentage of failures is the absence of a proper school of training.
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