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(e) Clearance of bush and undergrowth.
In spite of a rainfall of over eighty inches during the year, clearance of bush did not represent a matter of any moment in the Colony.
(f) Domiciliary visiting and inspections.
House-to-house inspection forms part of the duties of the Health Officers and Sanitary Inspectorate, theoretically the Sanitary Inspectors being grouped round the Health Officers for this and other purposes. In actual practice the Sanitary Inspectors are not under the control of the Medical Officers of Health but under the Chairman of the Urban Council of Hong Kong, a quasi-municipal body which functions mainly as a cleansing department but which possesses limited powers and is without fiscal autonomy. The system is unsatisfactory from many points of view and strong representations have been made to Government to sanction a reorganization on up-to-date lines. It is over twelve years ago that Sanitary Inspectors were placed under the general control of the Medical Officers of Health in the United Kingdom (Sanitary Officers Ordinance, 1926). There are some hopes of this change being effected in 1938, this reform being long overdue and the present system militating against the health and well-being of the community.
It is estimated that, apart from premises occupied by Europeans and the larger banks, stores, etc., there are about 23,347 Chinese-type houses in the Urban Council Area of Hong Kong and Kowloon. The majority of these are of three storeys or floors. Some 220,713 floors were subjected to cleansing with kerosene oil emulsion during the year. Since each Sanitary Inspector is responsible for supervising a district containing 30,000 or more inhabitants, the majority of whom live under lamentably overcrowded conditions, domiciliary visiting which forms but a part of the duties of an Inspector can hardly be regarded as effective. This is borne out by the fact that numbers of cases of dangerous infectious disease, e.g., cholera, smallpox, etc., are "missed" and many fatal cases only seen in the mortuaries after being dumped in the streets. Such a dangerous state of affairs could hardly exist with an adequate and effectively supervised inspectorate working under the direct orders of the Medical Officers of Health who are nominally responsible for the health of the town.
(g) Offensive trades.
Some 186 premises were licensed for offensive trade purposes in Hong Kong and Kowloon.
The list of different businesses comprised the following:- battery manufacture and manganese crushing 30, bone boiling and storing 20, chromium plating 5, cleansing and storing of sharks fins 31, fat boiling and soap manufacture 39, feather
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(e) Clearance of bush and undergrowth.
In spite of a rainfall of over eighty inches during the year, clearance of bush did not represent a matter of any moment in the Colony.
(f) Domiciliary visiting and inspections.
House-to-house inspection forms part of the duties of the Health Officers and Sanitary Inspectorate, theoretically the Sanitary Inspectors being grouped round the Health Officers for this and other purposes. In actual practice the Sanitary Inspectors are not under the control of the Medical Officers of Health but under the Chairman of the Urban Council of Hong Kong, a quasi-municipal body which functions mainly as а cleansing department but which possesses limited powers and is without fiscal autonomy. The system is unsatisfactory from many points of view and strong representations have been made to Government to sanction a reorganization on up-to-date limes. It is over twelve years ago that Sanitary Inspectors were placed under the general control of the Medical Officers of Health in the United Kingdom (Sanitary Officers Ordinance, 1926). There are some hopes of this change being effected in 1938 this reform being long overdue and the present system militating against the health and well-being of the community.
It is estimated that, apart from premises occupied by Euro- peans and the larger banks, stores, etc., there are about 23,347 Chinese-type houses in the Urban Council Area of Hong Kong and Kowloon. The majority of these are of three storeys or floors. Some 220,713 floors were subjected to cleansing with kerosene oil emulsion during the year. Since each Sanitary Inspector is responsible for supervising a district containing 30,000 or more inhabitants, the majority of whom live under lamentably overcrowded conditions, domiciliary visiting which forms but a part of the duties of an Inspector can hardly be regarded as effective. This is borne out by the fact that numbers of cases of dangerous infectious disease, e.g., cholera, smallpox, etc., are "inissed" and many fatal cases only seen in the mortuaries after being dumped in the streets. Such a dangerous state of affairs could hardly exist with an adequate and effectively supervised inspectorate working under the direct orders of the Medical Officers of Health who are nominally responsible for the health of the town.
(g) Offensive trades.
Some 186 premises were licensed for offensive trade pur- poses in Hong Kong and Kowloon.
The list of different businesses comprised the following:- battery manufacture and manganese crushing 30, bone boiling and storing 20, chromium plating 5, cleansing and storing of sharks fins 31, fat boiling and soap manufacture 39, feather
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