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examinations of whom one was accepted for registration after passing the examinations,

41. In addition, one application for restoration to the Register was approved.

Pharmacy Board

42. The Board met four times during the year, the main items of business being concerned with agricultural poisons and with a difficulty that arose over the use of scheduled poisons in traditional Chinese herbal medicines.

43. Twelve applications for registration were considered of which only one was accepted without examination. Of the remaining eleven applicants, two were accepted after examination and nine were required to undertake further practical training before sitting the Board's examinations.

Nursing Board

44. The qualification of Registered Nurse granted by the Board has been recognized by the Nursing Councils in the United Kingdom since 1939. Statutory preliminary and final examinations are held twice each year in the English and Chinese languages, under the general supervi- sion of the Board, which appoints examiners, conducts the examinations and approves the results.

45. The Board held four ordinary meetings and one special meeting during the year. In addition to routine business in connexion with examinations and registration the Board considered and approved the final drafts of the Nurses Registration Ordinance and Regulations. It is expected that the Ordinances and Regulations will become law in mid-1961.

46. For the examinations leading to registration as a General Nurse, 397 candidates were entered by the approved Training Schools for the Preliminary Examinations and 270 passed in all subjects; 194 candidates were accepted for the Final Examinations of whom 158 passed in all subjects.

47. The first Preliminary Examination in Mental Nursing was beld in January and the four candidates who entered passed in all subjects. 48. There were 190 applicants for registration as general ourses and 178 were accepted. Of these, 154 were nurses who had qualified at the Hong Kong Training Schools recognized by the Board and their names were entered in the Register after passing the Board's Final

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Examination. Twenty one nurses trained outside the Colony were accepted without examination and two after passing the Final Examina- tion; four applicants were required to sit the Final Examination; eight others were rejected on the grounds that their training was not of a standard equal to that set by the Board in the Colony; one application is still under consideration by the Board.

49. Four applications for re-inclusion in the Register were approved. Midwives Board

50. This Board meets four times each year and conducts examina- tions in April, July, October and January. The course of training in midwifery lasts two years for pupil midwives entering the course direct but registered nurses are accepted for entry to the examination after one year's full-time training in midwifery.

51. Owing to the social conditions existing in the Colony there is very little scope for domiciliary midwifery and the majority of confine- ments take place in hospitals and maternity homes. Therefore the qualification given by the Board is not fully recognized by the General Midwives Board of the United Kingdom for registration there. There is, however, a remission of three-quarters of the period of training in the United Kingdom granted to midwives registered in Hong Kong who may wish to sit the United Kingdom State Certified Midwives examinations.

52. One special meeting was held during the year at which the Board approved the final draft of the revised Midwives Registration Ordinance. This legislation was enacted in December 1960.

53. There were 142 candidates from approved Training Schools in the Colony accepted for the Board's examinations; of these 131 passed and were registered. There were three further applications for registra- tion; one was accepted without examination and two after passing the examinations.

54. In addition five applications for restoration to the Register were approved.

Radiation Board

55. The Board, which was constituted by the Radiation Ordinance, No. 35 of 1957, met once to consider draft regulations governing irradiat- ing apparatus, and a number of amendments to the principal Ordinance. These amendments, which were approved, concern certain technical definitions, give the Board some powers of exemption where it appears.

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