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27. The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services is the official adviser to Government on all medical and sanitary matters and is the Officer responsible to Government for the Public Health of the Colony. Under his direction come the Government Hospital Organisation, the Inspection of Chinese Hospitals and Chinese Dispensaries, the Medical Inspection of Schools, the Bacteriological Institute, the Analytical Laboratory, Anti-malarial Activities, Vaccination, Quarantine and Port Health Work, Social Hygiene Work, Maternity and Child Welfare Work, and the Registration of Births and Deaths.
28. The Sanitary Department, which is distinct from and independent of the Medical Department, has at its head a layman, an officer of the Cadet Service. This Department does the work usually performed by the Health Department of a Municipality and in addition deals with all matters connected with scavenging and conservancy. Attached to this department are Medical Officers of Health who are seconded from the Medical Department, two Veterinary Surgeons, and fifty-six European Sanitary Inspectors.
29. There is a Sanitary Board composed of officials and non-officials whose powers and responsibilities are laid down in the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance 1903, and which acts as an advisory body to the Head of the Sanitary Department, who is ex-officio chairman of the Board. The Board has no direct control over the Department. The functions and powers of the Board and the Department are limited to the Colony and to that portion of the New Territories adjacent to Kowloon, which is known as New Kowloon.
30. The present machinery for the promotion of the Public Health is complex in that responsibility for the organisation of energy both for the cure and the prevention of disease is divided among a number of units, governmental and non-governmental, which operate more or less independently of one another.
Public Health Laws and their administration,
31. The principal Ordinances which have effect in matters of Hygiene and Sanitation are:
I. The Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, which resembles the English Public Health Act of 1875, and which deals with Infectious Diseases of Humans and of Animals, the wholesomeness of foods for human consumption, abattoirs, markets, dairies, food factories, and food shops, nuisances, scavenging and cleansing, drainage, sewerage and sewage disposal, latrines, urinals, and water closets, factories, workshops, laundries, and offensive trades, buildings, their siting, design, and construction, wells, and pools.
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27. The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services is the official adviser to Government on all medical and sanitary matters and is the Officer responsible to Government for the Public Health of the Colony. Under his direction come the Government Hospital Organisation, the Inspection of Chinese Hospitals and Chinese Dispensaries, the Medical Inspection of Schools, the Bacteriological Institute, the Analytical Laboratory, Anti-malarial Activities, Vaccination, Quarantine and Port Health Work. Social Hygiene Work, Maternity and Child Welfare Work, and the Registration of Births and Deaths.
28. The Sanitary Department which is distinct from and independent of the Medical Department has at its head a layman, an officer of the Cadet Service. This Department does the work usually performed by the Health Department of a Municipality and in addition deals with all matters connected with scavenging and conservancy. Attached to this department are Medical Officers of Health who are seconded from the Medical Depart- ment, two Veterinary Surgeons and fifty-six European Sanitary Inspectors.
29. There is a Sanitary Board composed of officials and non-officials whose powers and responsibilities are laid down in the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance 1903 and which acts as an advisory body to the Head of the Sanitary Department who is ex-officio chairman of the Board. The Board has no direct control over the Department. The functions and powers of the Board and the Department are limited to the Colony and to that portion of the New Territories adjacent to Kowloon which is known as New Kowloon.
30. The present machinery for the promotion of the Public Health is complex in that responsibility for the organisation of energy both for the cure and the prevention of disease is divided among a number of units, governmental and non-governmental, which operate more or less independently of one another.
Public Health Laws and their administration,
31. The principal Ordinances which have effect in matters of Hygiene and Sanitation are:
I. The Public Health and Buildings Ordinance which resem- bles the English Public Health Act of 1875 and which deals with Infectious Diseases of Humans and of Animals, the wholesome- ness of foods for human consumption, abattoirs, markets, dairies, food factories and food shops, nuisances, scavenging and clean- sing, drainage, sewerage and sewage disposal, latrines, urinals and water closets, factories, workshops, laundries and offensive trades, buildings, their siting, design and construction, wells and pools.
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