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SECTION III.
Hygiene and Sanitation.
GENERAL REMARKS—ADMINISTRATION.
131. The Sanitary Department which is distinct from the Medical Department and over which the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services has no authority deals with the greater part of the sanitation of the Colony. The head of the department is an officer of the Cadet Service whose title is Head of the Sanitary Department.
132. The staff under his administrative supervision includes:-
(i) Two European and one Chinese Health Officers seconded from the Medical Department.
(ii) Two Veterinary Surgeons.
(iii) Fifty European Sanitary Inspectors and five Asiatic Sanitary Inspectors. Seven probationary Chinese Sanitary Inspectors were added to the staff in October.
There are a number of interpreters and a large staff of subordinates.
133. Included among the responsibilities of this department are:
(a) the prevention or mitigation of epidemic, endemic, contagious or infectious disease in humans and animals.
(b) the prevention of disease caused by mosquitoes.
(c) measures for ensuring the purity and wholesomeness of foods during their preparation, storage and sale.
(d) the control of abattoirs, markets, dairies and bakeries.
(e) the control of eating houses.
(f) town cleansing, scavenging and collection of nightsoil.
(g) the disposal of the dead.
134. For the purpose of sanitary administration by the Sanitary Department, the Island and the Peninsula have been divided into local sanitary areas, each with a sanitary office, and these in turn, have been sub-divided into Health Districts each in charge of a Sanitary Inspector.
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SECTION III.
Hygiene and Sanitation.
GENERAL REMARKS—ADMINISTRATION.
131. The Sanitary Department which is distinct from the Medical Department and over which the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services has no authority deals with the greater part of the sanitation of the Colony. The head of the department is an officer of the Cadet Service whose title is Head of the Sanitary Department.
132. The staff under his administrative supervision in- cludes:-
(i) Two European and one Chinese Health Officers seconded
from the Medical Department.
(ii) Two Veterinary Surgeons.
(iii) Fifty European Sanitary Inspectors and five Asiatic Sanitary Inspectors. Seven probationary Chinese Sani- tary Inspectors were added to the staff in October.
There are a number of interpreters and a large staff of subordinates.
are:
133. Included among the responsibilities of this department
(a) the prevention or mitigation of epidemic, endemic, con- tagious or infectious disease in humans and animals. (b) the prevention of disease caused by mosquitoes. (c) measures for ensuring the purity and wholesomeness of
foods during their preparation, storage and sale.
(d) the control of abattoirs, markets, dairies and bakeries. (e) the control of eating houses.
(f) town cleansing, scavenging and collection of nightsoil. (g) the disposal of the dead.
134. For the purpose of sanitary administration by the Sanitary Department, the Island and the Peninsula have been divided into local sanitary areas, each with a sanitary office, and these in turn, have been sub-divided into Health Districts each in charge of a Sanitary Inspector.
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