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In selected cases, bi-weekly inunctions of ditophal are used, combined with routine systemic therapy, but there have been instances where a contact dermatitis has resulted and the inunctions had to be discontinued.

223. Surgical rehabilitation of leprosy patients suffering from deformities and disfigurements is carried out at the Maxwell Memorial Hospital at the Hei Ling Chau Leprosarium; it is also provided in certain Government hospitals where a limited number of beds is avail- able for the purpose.

224. In the epidemiological field, it is a routine for the home of each new leprosy patient to be visited by a Social Hygiene Visitor within a month of the diagnosis being made; personal advice is given, contacts are requested to attend for examination and it is urged that child contacts receive B.C.O. vaccination. After the initial examination, contacts are advised to return for re-examination at least once a year; those who do not return are re-visited as are patients defaulting from

treatment.

PORT HEALTH

225. The Port Health Administration is responsible for all measures designed to prevent the introduction of quarantinable infectious diseases into the Colony: for the sanitary control of the ports of entry by sea. air and rail; for the carrying out of the provisions of the International Sanitary Regulations as embodied in the Quarantine and Prevention of Diseases Ordinance and the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance: for the compilation of epidemiological statistics and reports and for the general organization of prophylactic vaccination campaigns. There are also statutory responsibilities under the Hong Kong Merchant Shipping Ordinance. A weekly exchange of epidemiological information is main tained with the World Health Organization Epidemiological Station in Geneva.

226. All persons entering the Colony are subject to a quarantine inspection. Arrivals by sea are inspected at the two quarantine anchorages in Kowloon Bay and off Stonecullers Island respectively; arrivals by air are inspected at Kai Tak Airport and persons crossing the land frontier, at the Lo Wu Quarantine post. All immigrants without valid certificates are vaccinated against smallpox.

227. Other routine work carried out includes the deratting, dis- insecting and fumigation of ships, sanitary duties in the port and airport, including supervision of water supplies, control measures to keep the

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OFFICE

Anti-Cholera Campaign—people waiting for anti-choleru inoculations.