CO129-553-10 Urban Council- re-organisation of the medical and sanitary services 8-3-1935 - 31-7-1935 — Page 38

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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

the disposal of the dead." He said: Sir, I rise to move the first reading of the Public Health (Sanitation) Bill. This is one of the series of enactments into which, to carry out the recom- mendations of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, has been split up. It will be seen from the Table of Correspondence attached to the Bill that although its provisions are taken mainly from correspond- ing provisions in the 1903 Ordinance some are adapted from the legislation of the United Kingdom and Malaya. Clauses 6 and 7 are new. They provide for the grouping of Sanitary Inspectors under Health Officers who will be under the general direction of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services who becomes the professional adviser of the Urban Council, which, under another Bill in the series, will replace the Sanitary Board. I move the first reading.

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.

Objects and Reasons.

The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:

1. In his report on the need for reorganisation of the Medical and Sanitary Services of the Colony the Director of those Services recommends that the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance (No. 1 of 1903) which deals with building construction, sanitation, infectious diseases control, food control, etc., etc., should be broken up into a number of Ordinances each dealing with its particular branch of the Public Health Complex.

2. This Ordinance contains all the provisions of No. 1 of 1903, together with certain provisions of other legislation, which it is considered suitable to group under sanitation.

3. A Table of Correspondence attached to the Ordinance shows the origin of the various sections.

PUBLIC HEALTH (FOOD) ORDINANCE, 1935.

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to make better provision for the maintenance of Public Health in relation to Food and Hawkers." He said: Sir, I rise to move the first reading of the Public Health (Food) Bill. It is one of the new series of enactments which will replace the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, and its objects are to prohibit and prevent the sale of tainted, diseased or unwhole- some food, to give Food Officers powers of inspection and seizure, and to give the Urban Council power to make by-laws regulating

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