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During the year 129 special visits were made to vessels as compared with eighty-six in 1936 to examine persons suffering from infectious but non-quarantinable diseases.
Thirty-three out of the thirty-six bodies handed from vessels were examined at the mortuary.
Bills of Health to the number of 1,611 were issued in Hong Kong. Their abolition has been urged in many parts of the world and there is some doubt as to their value in the Far East, more especially under the disturbed conditions existing at the moment.
Owing to the absence of any quarantine immigration station in Hong Kong it is not practicable to enforce observation ashore of passengers and crews. When the occasion arises observation has to be carried out on board at one or other of the two quarantine anchorages to which go vessels when arriving from ports declared "infected" within the meaning of the International Sanitary Convention of 1926. Eleven ships were detained in quarantine during 1937 and 485,629 persons were medically examined on arrival, making an average of 1,330 per day. All emigrants from the Colony are medically examined and, when necessary, vaccinated before departure.
Some 245,488 emigrants were so examined during the year of whom 239,188 were "free", that is to say they paid for their passages, and the balance were "assisted", their passages being paid by their prospective employers. Rejections numbered 1,153. Emigrants vaccinated were 116,208 in number.
The following table shows the number of emigrants leaving Hong Kong and the proportion proceeding to the Straits Settlements during the past five years.
1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 Average for period To Straits Settlements 20,324 86,192 102,674 101,499 165,177 95,173 Total to all ports 64,181 138,240 158,300 164,077 245,488 154,057Disinfection and deratisation of ships, an activity previously carried out by a private company, is now performed by the Fumigation Bureau of the Port Health Authority.
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During the year 129 special visits were made to vessels as compared with eighty-six in 1936 to examine persons suffering from infectious but non-quarantinable diseases.
Thirty-three out of the thirty-six bodies handed from vessels were examined at the mortuary.
Bills of Health to the number of 1,611 were issued in Hong Kong. Their abolition has been urged in many parts of the world and there is some doubt as to their value in the Far East, more especially under the disturbed conditions existing at the moment.
Owing to the absence of any quarantine immigration station in Hong Kong it is not practicable to enforce observation ashore of passengers and crews. When the occasion arises observation has to be carried out on board at one or other of the two quarantine anchorages to which go vessels when arriving from ports declared "infected" within the meaning of the Inter- national Sanitary Convention of 1926. Eleven ships were detained in quarantine during 1987 and 485,629 persons were medically examined on arrival, making an average of 1,330 per day. All eanigrants from the Colony are medically examined and, when necessary, vaccinated before departure.
Some 245,488 ernigrants were so examined during the year of whom 239,188 were "free", that is to say they paid for their passages, and the balance were "assisted", their passages being paid by their prospective employers. Rejections numbered 1,153. Emigrants vaccinated were 116,208 in number.
The following table shows the number of emigrants leaving Hong Kong and the proportion proceeding to the Straits Settlements during the past five years.
Table XII.
Average
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937 for period
To Strails
Settlements
20,324
86,192 102,674 101,499 165,177
95,173
Total to all
ports
64,181 138,240 158,300 164,077 245,488 154,057
Disinfection and deratisation of ships, an activity previously carried out by a private company, is now performed by the Fumigation Bureau of the Port Health Authority.
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