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WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1989

SUPPLY

"EXAMPLES INCLUDE TEACHERS. OTHER

CONSIDERED, HE SAID.

LIFE

GUARDS,

OF CLASSES

LETTER SORTING WORKERS

ARE BEING PART-TIME WORKERS

AND

ACCORDING

A

ENTERED CONCERNING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF WOMEN ESTIMATED TO HAVE

ΤΟ THAT

AND CENSUS STATED THE JOB MARKET, MR BRIDGE

13,900 WOMEN STATISTICS DEPARTMENT SURVEY CARRIED OUT IN 1987, ABOUT

THEIR CHILDREN COULD BE TAKEN WOULD BE WILLING TO TAKE UP JOBS IF CARE OF.

"IN THE SUBVENTED SECTOR, THERE WERE SOME 480 CHILDREN WAITING LISTS KEPT BY DAY CRECHES AT THE END OF MARCH 1989.

ON THE

AS

SUITABLE HE SAID.

WAITLISTED CHILDREN "AND THERE WERE ABOUT 4.000 FOR PLACEMENT AT DAY NURSERIES AT THE END OF DECEMBER 1988,"

INFORMATION

HAD NO MR BRIDGE POINTED OUT THAT THE GOVERNMENT ON WAITING LISTS FOR PRIVATE CRECHES AND DAY CARE FACILITIES.

SHW CLARIFIES NAME OF HERBAL MEDICINE

* *

THAT THE HERB WHICH

CHUT,

AND THE

A POLICE REPORT HAD ALREADY ESTABLISHED WAS CONSUMED BY TWO VICTIMS OF A CASE REFERRED, WAS TO YEE NOT KWAI CHOW LUNG DAM CHO, THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE, HON CHAU TAK-HAY, TOLD THE LEGISATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THE HON APRIL

IN A STATEMENT RECTIFYING THE ANSWER WHICH HE GAVE TO MIRIAM LAU'S QUESTION ON CHINESE TRADITIONAL HERBAL MEDICINE ON

TO ME AT THAT 19. MR CHAU SAID: "BASED ON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED TIME, I STATED THAT THE HERB CONSUMED BY THE TWO VICTIMS WAS KWAI CHOW LUNG DAM CHO,"

HAD ALREADY MEDICINAL

THAT THE HERB

BEEN

"I WAS SUBSEQUENTLY INFORMED THAT A POLICE REPORT ESTABLISHED. FOLLOWING AN ANALYSIS CONDUCTED AT THE CHINESE MATERIAL RESEARCH CENTRE AT THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY, CONSUMED WAS TO YEE CHUT (PODOPHYLLUM EMODI} WHICH HAD AND SOLD AS KWAI CHOW LUNG DAM CHO ON THE BASIS OF INVOICES SUPPLIER," HE SAID.

IMPORTED FROM THE

THERE WAS AN

OVERDOSE

MR CHAU ADDED THAT HIS STATEMENT THAT WAS CORRECT AND WAS SUBSTANTIATED BY THE POLICE REPORT.

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