M 46
168. Routine examinations are carried out by the Government Bacteriologist and Government Analyst and the results furnished to the Water Authority. The results show that the water as supplied to the consumer is of excellent quality.
Common Lodging Houses.
169. Boarding Houses, which include every place where any person is harboured or lodged for any kind whatsoever of hire or reward and where any domestic service whatsoever is rendered by the owner, lessee, principal tenant, occupier, or master to the person so harboured or lodged, but which do not include any boarding house for non-Chinese seamen within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, are licensed and controlled by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs under the Boarding House Ordinance.
170. They include hotels, common lodging houses, places where employers lodge their employees and the premises of societies within the meaning of the Societies Ordinance, where persons pass the night.
171. In practice, the Sanitary Department reports on the condition of the house and if declared sanitary, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, if he be satisfied, registers it and licenses the keeper.
172. As mentioned above, Boarding Houses include Common Lodging Houses. Some 550 Chinese Boarding House licences have been issued by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. They vary in class from 3rd class lodging houses to 1st class hotels.
LABOUR CONDITIONS.
173. There are no estates or plantations, few 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.
174. Labourers find their own accommodation in the many tenements and lodging houses which exist in Hong Kong and Kowloon.
175. The Factories and Workshops Ordinance administered by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs contains sections bearing on the health of factory workers. The Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance also contains sections bearing on the health of factory workers.
M 46
168. Routine examinations are carried out by the Govern- ment Bacteriologist and Government Analyst and the results furnished to the Water Authority. The results show that the water as supplied to the consumer is of excellent quality.
Common Lodging Houses.
169. Boarding Houses which include every place where any person is harboured or lodged for any kind whatsoever of hire or reward and where any domestic service whatsoever is rendered by the owner, lessee, principal tenant, occupier, or master to the person so harboured or lodged, but which do not include any boarding house for non-Chinese seamen within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, are licensed and controlled by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs under the Boarding House Ordinance.
170. They include hotels, common lodging houses, places where employers lodge their employees and the premises of societies within the meaning of the Societies ordinance, where persons pass the night.
171. In practice the Sanitary Department report on the condition of the house and if declared sanitary the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, if he be satisfied, registers it and licenses the keeper.
172. As mentioned above Boarding Houses include Common Lodging Houses. Some 550 Chinese Boarding House licences have been issued by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. They vary in class from 3rd class lodging houses to 1st class hotels.
LABOUR CONDITIONS.
173. There are no estates or plantations, few mines, and comparatively few large factories. The majority of the urban labouring classes are engaged in matters connected with com- merce, shipping or public works and the bulk of the remainder find employment in shops or workshops or independent busi- Desses. There is no need for recruitment of labour, the supply being more than sufficient to satisfy all demands.
174. Labourers find their own accommodation in the many tenements and lodging houses which exist in Hong Kong and Kowloon.
175. The Factories and Workshops Ordinance administered by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs contains sections bearing on the health of factory workers. The Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance also contains sections bearing on the health of factory workers.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.