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Shouson Hill: This is a fine residential area on the south side of the Island. Badly damaged during the war, it has gradually been built up again. Its water supply was found to be contaminated and a new 32,000 gallon water storage tank had to be built. This is now in operation and frequent sampling is being undertaken in order to check on the chlorination system used.

(c) Mural Health.

52. There are pine government dispensarios giving free medical treatment to the villagers at Taipo, Fanling, Sha Tau Kok, Un Lang, San Hui, Shani Teong, Sai Kung, Cheung Chan and Tai 0. These dispensaries also have a few beda for maternity cases and the midwivas attend maternity cases in the villagos an The medical weeds of smaller villages approachable by well. road are attended to by two travelling dispensaries and a launch mokes frequent visits to more remote islands.

53. Apart from routine work the activities of the health staff of the New Territories have been directed mainly towards the improvement of the hygiene of licensed premises such as restaurants and eating houses, food preserving establishments and food fac- tories, to the control of markets, and hawkers, to schemes for village layouts and to health propaganda.

54. New rules are being prepared governing the control of private markets, private slaughter-huvses, offensive trades, and the control of cattle. The main net of health rules introduced in 1941 are being re-drafted.

55. There is every reason to hope that the preventive aspect of health work will develop to an increasing extent, the purely curative work serving largely as a means of friendly contact with the more progressive units in the population with a view to u public health advance being made with the hacking of representa- tives of the village elders.

(ii) Anti-epidemic.

50. An anti-opídeonie team consisting of 5 ductors, a health inspector, vaccinators and office staff with assistance from other health staff are responsible for preventive work against epidemics.

57. This team is responsible for the vaccination and inocola- tion campaigns and huve, with the assistance of other members of the health staff and of St. John Ambulance Brigado, performed som two-and-a-half million smallpox vaccinatione since the reoccupation of the Colony, Annex (B) shows the preventive vaccinations and inoculations carried out during the year,

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68. With the onset of the warmer weather, every effort was made to prevent a repetition of the cholera outbreak of 1946. To do this with the staff available, it was necessary to cancel house- cleansing operations temporarily, so that the inspectorate could concentrate on anti-cholera measures. These consisted of opera- tinna designed to prevent the sale of cut-fruit, shell-fial," and certain other illegal foodstuffs, and anti-cholera inoculation campaign, and the frequent sampling of ice-cream and milk.

59. Propaganda, particularly in connection with cholera, was used through the means of mobile loud speakers, the cinems and the prons and appeared to be very effective.

(iii) Port Health Work.

60. The work of this health branch is governed by Inter- pational Sanitary ('emventions of which llong Kong is a signatory and by local ordinantes, the Quarantiue and Prevention of Disease Ordinance, the Vaccination Ordinance and the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance. Of the five international quarantinable linenses, plague raged in Hong Kong for 30 years prior to the year 1994, when for the first time the annual health raturus showed a absence of the disease and the Colony has been free from it since. Cholera and smallpox are the two important epidemic diseases. Typhus occurs aparadically, and the cases recorded during the Paar were of the urban and seruh types. No case of the epidemie louse-borne type was recorded. Tellaw fever has not been recorded in this part of the world.

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61. One quaroutine anchorage, Stonecutters, throughout the year for river boats and constal vessela, but on occasions, and for ships over 10,000 tons Kowloon Bay was used.

(2. Plans for the use of the site of the old Hennies Milla. in Junk Bay, for a quarantine station were under consideration at the close of the year.

63. In July most of the Kwangtung and South China ports were withdrawn from the quarantine list, and junka and river steamers were not inspected" during the second half of the year.

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Ten thousand nne hundred and ninety ships with 306,845 passengers and 265,408 crew were examined at the quarantine anchorage. 17.065 vaccinations were performed.

Nine yeasels were quarantined for having infections divenne on board.

66. The most notable cases were the s/s Iwieback from Shanghai and the s/s Kwangtung from Canton each with one case of smallpox and the a/s Andre Lebon from Saigon with 6 positive cases of cholera.

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