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SECTION III.
Hygiene and Sanitation.
GENERAL REMARKS-ADMINISTRATION.
142. The Urban Council and the Sanitary Department deal with the greater part of the sanitation of the Urban areas.
143. Under the Urban Council Ordinance and the various Public Health Ordinances which came into force at the beginning of the year considerable changes were made in the machinery governing the administration of hygiene and sanitation. Under the new scheme the Medical Department and the Sanitary Department were brought into closer relationship by the Director of Medical Services becoming Vice-Chairman of the Urban Council which took the place of the Sanitary Board and assuming general direction over the activities of the Urban Health Officers under whom are grouped the Sanitary Inspectors.
144. The Urban Council and the Sanitary Department are responsible for:-
(i) Work under the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance dealing with nuisances, street and house sanitation, the collection and disposal of refuse, Latrines and the collection and disposal of night soil, the control of wells and pools, the sanitary maintenance of eating houses, factories, workshops and places of public instruction, recreation and assembly, public baths and workhouses, stables and animal houses, mosquito breeding control, cemeteries and the disposal of the dead.
(ii) Work under the Public Health (Food) Ordinance dealing with slaughter houses, markets, dairies and milk shops, food factories, food shops, eating houses and restaurants.
(iii) Work under the Adulterated Food and Drugs Ordinance.
(iv) Work under the Public Health (Animals & Birds) Ordinance.
(v) Work under the Hawkers Ordinance.
The staff of the Sanitary Department includes:-
(i) Two European and one Chinese Health Officers seconded from the Medical Department.
(ii) Two Veterinary Surgeons.
(iii) Forty-nine European Sanitary Inspectors and twelve Asiatic Sanitary Inspectors.
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SECTION III.
Hygiene and Sanitation.
GENERAL REMARKS-ADMINISTRATION.
142. The Urban Council and the Sanitary Department deal with the greater part of the sanitation of the Urban areas.
143. Under the Urban Council Ordinance and the various Public Health Ordinances which came into force at the begin- ing of the year considerable changes were made in the ma- chinery governing the adininistration of hygiene and sanitation. Under the new scheme the Medical Department and the Sanitary Department were brought into closer relationship by the Director of Medical Services becoming Vice-Chairman of the Urban Council which took the place of the Sanitary Board and assuming general direction over the activities of the Urban Health Officers under whom are grouped the Sanitary Inspectors. 144. The Urban Council and the Sanitary Department are responsible for:-
(4) Work under the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance dealing with nuisances, street and house sanitation, the collection and disposal of refuse, Latrines and the col- lection and disposal of night soil, the control of wells and pools, the sanitary maintenance of eating houses, factories, workshops and places of public instruction, recreation and assembly, public baths and workhouses, stables and animal houses, mosquito breeding control, cemeteries and the disposal of the dead.
() Work under the Public Health (Food) Ordinance deal- ing with slaughter houses, markets, dairies and milk shops, food factories, food shops, eating houses and
restaurants.
(i) Work under the Adulterated Food and Drugs Ordin-
ance.
(iv) Work under the Public Health (Animals & Birds)
Ordinance.
(v) Work under the Hawkers Ordinance.
The staff of the Sanitary Department includes: ----
(i) Two European and one Chinese Health Officers seconded
froin the Medical Department.
(ii) Two Veterinary Surgeons.
(iii) Forty-nine European Sanitary Inspectors and twelve
Asiatic Sanitary Inspectors.
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