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new Ordinance consolidates under one heading all the regulations governing factories and workshops, and besides affording scope for further expansion, it carries the important new regulation requiring all factories and workshops to be registered at the office of the Factory Inspectorate. This registration of factories has been urgently needed for many years and may be expected to lead to an improvement in general factory conditions and the gradual disappearance of the more undesirable type of tenement house factory.
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49. Accidents.-The total number of accidents in factories during the year was ninety-one of which five were fatal, as compared with seventy-two (five fatal) for the preceding year. large proportion of the accidents occurred in the shipbuilding yards, most of them being due to falls or to injury from falling materials. There was again a welcome freedom from the scalping accidents which were formerly so frequent among women workers in the knitting factories. A separate table is appended showing the number of accidents occurring in each industry.
CHINESE TEMPLES.
(Ordinance 7 of 1928).
(Tables XXXII & XXXIV).
50. The following gentlemen served on the Chinese Temples Committee during the year:
(a) Hon. Sir Shouson Chow, Kt., Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso, O.B.E., Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau-Chinese members of the Executive Council and of the Legislative Council.
(b) Mr. Li Yau-tsun, C.B.E.,-Representative of the District Watch Committee.
(c) Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, Mr. M. K. Lo,-Chinese members of the Sanitary Board.
(d) Mr. Chan Lim-pak, Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital Committee.
(e) Mr. Tang Shiu-kin, Senior member of the Po Leung Kuk Committee.
(f) Mr. Chan Wah-man, Representative of the Directors of the Tung Wah Hospital who are residents of Kowloon or New Kowloon.
(g) Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Chairman).
51. The Committee met once at the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
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new Ordinance consolidates under one heading all the regulations governing factories and workshops, and besides affording scope for further expansion, it carries the important new regulation requiring all factories and workshops to be registered at the office of the Factory Inspectorate. This registration of factories has been urgently needed for many years and may be expected to lead to an improvement in general factory conditions and the gradual disappearance of the more undesirable type of tenement house factory.
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49. Accidents.-The total number of accidents in factories during the year was ninety-one of which five were fatal, as com- pared with seventy-two (five fatal) for the preceeding year. large proportion of the accidents occurred in the shipbuilding yards, most of them being due to falls or to injury from falling materials. There was again.a welcome freedom from the scalp- ing accidents which were formerly so frequent among women workers in the knitting factories. A separate table is appended showing the number of accidents occurring in each industry.
CHINESE TEMPLES.
(Ordinance 7 of 1928).
(Tables XXXII & XXXIV).
50. The following gentlemen served on the Chinese Temples Committee during the year: --
(a) Hon. Sir Shouson Chow, Kt., Hon. Dr. R. H. Kote- wall, C.M.G., Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso, 0.B.E., Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau-Chinese members of the Executive Council and of the Legislative Council.
(b) Mr. Li Yau-tsun, C.B.E.,-Representative of the
District Watch Committee.
(c) Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, Mr. M. K. Lo,-Chinese
members of the Sanitary Board.
(d) Mr. Chan Lim-pak, Chairman of the Tung Wah
Hospital Committee.
(e) Mr. Tang Shiu-kin, Senior member of the Po Leung
Kuk Committee.
(f) Mr. Chan Wah-man, Representative of the Directors of the Tung Wah Hospital who are residents of Kowloon or New Kowloon.
(g) Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Chairman).
51. The Committee met once at the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
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