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One other group namely "(i) masters of steamers and local pilots" (which comes from section 4 (11) of Ordinance No. 6 of 1887 and from section 5 (4) (i) of Ordinance No. 6 of 1927) is somewhat vague and I shall welcome, when this Bill goes into Committee, any suggestions for its improvement. Honourable members will see at the end of the Bill a Table of Correspondence between the various clauses of the Bill and the sections of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance which it will replace. There is also a printed page of notes on the various clauses. These I think I may amplify by drawing attention to clauses 10 and 11 (2) which are new and which make the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services the professional adviser to the Urban Council on all medical matters including matters of public health and sanitation. He is to assist and advise the Council on these matters and to superintend and direct the enforcement, by officers under his control, of all Ordinances, regulations and by-laws relating to public health. He is in fact to be, what his title implies, the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services. I now move the first reading of the Bill.
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 the 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., should be broken up into a number of Ordinances, each dealing with its particular branch of the Public Health Complex.
2. This Bill provides for the replacement of the Sanitary Board by an Urban Council and also repeals the various Public Health and Buildings Ordinances.
3. The Sanitary Board had four official and six unofficial members, two of whom were elected. It is proposed in the Urban Council to have five official members and also to increase the number of unofficial members to eight. Of these, three are to be elected, and five, of whom three must be Chinese, nominated by the Governor.
PUBLIC HEALTH (SANITATION) ORDINANCE, 1935.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the law relating to town cleansing, domestic sanitation, the licensing of certain premises and trades and
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