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LABOUR CONDITION.
163. There are no estates, plantations or mines, and comparatively few large factories. The majority of the urban labouring classes are engaged in matters connected with commerce, shipping or public works and the bulk of the remainder find employment in shops or workshops or independent businesses. There is no need for recruitment of labour, the supply being more than sufficient to satisfy all demands.
164. Labourers find their own accommodations in the many tenements and lodging houses which exist in Hong Kong and Kowloon.
165. The Factories and Workshops Ordinance administered by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs contains sections bearing on the health of factory workers. The Public Health and Buildings Ordinance also contains sections bearing on the health of factory workers.
166. Ordinarily there are no special arrangements for the medical care of labourers other than the Government Hospitals, the Chinese Hospitals, the Chinese Dispensaries and the Mission Hospitals. The total number of third class beds in these institutions available for general diseases are about 1,200 or 1 to 700 approximately.
167. Special arrangements were made for the care of the labourers engaged in the Shing Mun Water Works Scheme which was in full swing during the year. Anti-malaria precautions were taken and hospital accommodation and medical supervision provided.
HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING.
168. 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. Except that offensive trades are confined to the western end of the town there is little or no zoning in the older parts of Victoria and blacksmiths shops and even foundries are to be found in the midst of shop-houses and domestic buildings. The new reclamation in Victoria called the Praya East has been laid out on modern lines with wide streets and back lanes. The greater part of Kowloon and New Kowloon has been planned on up-to-date principles and the zones recommended by the Town Planning Committee of 1923 are being adopted.
169. The buildings portion of the P.H. & B. Ordinance being out of date in many respects the Buildings Ordinance 1935 was passed to replace it. It having been decreed that this enactment should come into force in 1936 it had no bearing on activities taken in the year under discussion.
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LABOUR CONDITION.
163. There are no estates, plantations or mines, and com- paratively few large factories. The majority of the urban labour- ing classes are engaged in matters connected with commercè, shipping or public works and the bulk of the remainder find em- ployment in shops or workshops or independent businesses. There is no need for recruitment of labour, the supply being more than sufficient to satisfy all demands.
164. Labourers find their own accommodations in the many tenements and lodging houses which exist in Hong Kong and Kowloon.
165. The Factories and Workshops Ordinance administered by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs contains sections bearing on the health of factory workers. The Public Health and Buildings Ordinance also contains sections bearing on the health of factory workers.
166. Ordinarily there are no special arrangements for the medical care of labourers other than the Government Hospitals, the Chinese Hospitals, the Chinese Dispensaries and the Mission Hospitals. The total number of third class beds in these institu- tions available for general diseases are about 1,200 or 1 to 700 approximately.
167. Special arrangements were made for the care of the labourers engaged in the Shing Mun Water Works Scheme which was in full swing during the year. Anti-malaria precautions were taken and hospital accommodation and medical supervision provided.
HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING.
168. 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 Depart- ment. Except that offensive trades are confined to the western end of the town there is little or no zoning in the older parts of Victoria and blacksmiths shops and even foundries are to be found in the midst of shop-houses and domestic buildings. The new reclamation in Victoria called the Praya East has been laid out on modern lines with wide streets and back lanes. The greater part of Kowloon and New Kowloon has been planned on up-to-date principles and the zones recommended by the Town Planning Committee of 1923 are being adopted.
169. The buildings portion of the P.H. & B. Ordinance being out of date in many respects the Buildings Ordinance 1935 was passed to replace it. It having been decreed that this enactment should come into force in 1936 it had no bearing on activities taken in the year under discussion.
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