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drying, cleaning and sorting 15, hair (including human) drying, cleaning and sorting 6, packing of skins and hides 1, pig roasting 22, rag sorting and picking 11, resin boiling 2, tanneries 4.
With the exception of the establishments dealing in sharks fins and pig roasting most of the trades mentioned above were confined to certain districts of the Urban Council Area set aside for the purpose.
Many of these undertakings are small and might be classed as house industries. In point of fact they are not infrequently carried on in premises designed as dwelling houses and not for commercial use. The battery industry which is of comparatively recent growth operates under conditions far from satisfactory owing to the primitive methods employed. Definite cases of poisoning with manganese have not so far been discovered, but it is more than likely that some of the ill-health suffered by the workers—mostly women—is attributable to working in the dust-laden atmosphere of these factories.
The feather cleaning industry is equally unsatisfactory from the workers' standpoint, especially as the labour roll is almost invariably made up of women and young girls. Attempts to insist upon the wearing of masks in the dust-laden atmosphere have failed and the only solution would appear to be the introduction of legislation to enforce mechanical cleaning.
(III)—SCHOOL HYGIENE.
The School Hygiene Branch of the Medical Department first came into being in 1925 when a Health Officer was specially allocated for this work. Four years later a Chinese Health Officer was appointed to assist. In 1933 a second Chinese Health Officer was added to the staff. The Branch is now made up of one European and two Chinese Health Officers, a part-time Lady Medical Officer and five Nurses.
The educational institutions in the Colony may be classified into three groups:—(1) Government schools, of which there are twenty-one with 5,643 scholars, (2) Grant-in-Aid schools, numbering nineteen with 8,676 scholars, and (3) Private schools, which are termed 'vernacular' when teaching is in Chinese, or 'English' when teaching is in English. Of the private schools, 284 with 20,210 scholars were subsidised, and 853 with 52,464 scholars were unaided. The majority of schools in the last category are very far from being satisfactory from the hygienic standpoint.
Under the Education Ordinance, 1913, the Director of Education is empowered to refuse applications for registration and to remove the names of schools from the register if such are not "properly and efficiently carried on".
The School Hygiene Branch is responsible for the medical supervision of school children and for the inspection of school premises.
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drying, cleaning and sorting 15, hair (including human) drying, cleaning and sorting 6, packing of skins and hides 1, pig roasting 22, rag sorting and picking 11, resin boiling 2, tanneries 4.
With the exception of the establishments dealing in sharks fins and pig roasting most of the trades mentioned above were confined to certain districts of the Urban Council Area set aside for the purpose.
Many of these undertakings are small and might be classed as house industries. In point of fact they are not infrequently carried on in premises designed as dwelling houses and not for commercial use. The battery industry which is of comparatively recent growth operates under conditions far from satisfactory owing to the primitive methods employed. Definite cases of poisoning with manganese have not so far been discovered, but it is more than likely that some of the ill-health suffered by the workers-mostly women-is attributable to working in the dust-
den atmosphere of these factories.
The feather cleaning industry is equally unsatisfactory from the workers standpoint, especially as the labour roll is almost invariably made up of women and young girls. Attempts to insist upon the wearing of masks in the dust-laden atmosphere have failed and the only solution would appear to be the intro- duction of legislation to enforce mechanical cleaning.
(III)-SCHOOL HYGIENE.
The School Hygiene Branch of the Medical Department first came into being in 1925 when a Health Officer was specially allocated for this work. Four years later a Chinese Health Officer was appointed to assist. In 1933 a second Chinese Health Officer was added to the staff. The Branch is now made up of one European and two Chinese Health Officers, a part-time Lady Medical Officer and five Nurses.
The educational institutions in the Colony may be classified into three groups: -(1) Government schools, of which there are twenty-one with 5,643 scholars, (2) Grant-in-Aid schools, num- bering nineteen with 8,676 scholans, and (3) Private schools, which are termed 'vernacular' when teaching is in Chinese, or 'English' when teaching is in English. Of the private schools, 284 with 20,210 scholars were subsidised, and 853 with 52,464 scholars were unaided. The majority of schools in the last category are very far from being satisfactory from the hygienic standpoint.
Under the Education Ordinance, 1913, the Director of Education is empowered to refuse applications for registration and to remove the names of schools from the register if such are not "properly and efficiently carried on".
The School Hygiene Branch is responsible for the medical supervision of school children and for the inspection of schocl premises.
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