(vi) Port Health Work.
134, The Senior Port Health Officer has a staff of eight doctors to assist him to control the part of Victoria, the airport at Kai Tak and the railway terminus in Kowloon,
136. During the early period of the year the Senior Port Health Officer, Dr. P. H. Teng, was away on study leave visiting sea and air ports In the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Canada, and during his journey took the opportunity to visit the port authorities in Singapore, Penang, Colombo and Manila.
136. Two quarantine anchorages were kept open throughout the year. Both sulphur and hydrocyanic acid were used for fumigations, which were carried out by the port health staff.
137. During the year, 13,781 ships and junks with 781,148 passengers and 637,991 crew were examined at the quarantine anchorages. No case of quarantinable disease was found on board any ship during the year. 159 ships were fumigated, nine of them with hydrocyanic acid.
TABLE 17.
Ships Fumigated.
(vii) School Hygiene,
140. All registered schools in the Colony are subject to inspection by the Schools Health Inspectors and have to conform to certain regulations designed to maintain hygienic standards in the school buildings; but only some 22,000 pupils were included in the Schools Health Service during the year 1950.
141. These pupils attended a total of 95 schools classified in three groups:
(a) Government Schools with a total of 841 pupils, most of whom
were European.
(b) 28 Government Schools with a total number of 8,963 pupils,
most of whom were Chinese.
(c) 62 subsidized schools with a total number of 12,206 pupils,
most of whom were Chinese.
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142. During the year 25,994 medical enaminations of pupils were carried out. There were 17,549 attendances at the schools general clinics and 1,908 attendances at the eye clinics. The optical workshop supplied 1,001 pairs of spectacles. There were 8,761 attendances at the dental clinics and 386 at the ear, nose and throat clinics.
143. A sample nutritional survey was carried out with the results as set out below in tables 18 to 21.
No. of Shipe Fumigated
Total Net Tonnage
Cubic Capacity
Rats Recovered
Sulphur
E.C.N.
used
used
(lbs.)
(025.)
150
228.483
27,620,523
1,472
82,332
5.142
(350 mice
included)
9
17,524
2.435,688
212
TABLE 18.
(40 mice
included)
Types A, B and C Schools.
Total 159
248.007
$0.066,211
1,694 (399 mice included)
82,832
6,142
Age Group
No. Inspected
Normal
Standard of Nutrition
Slightly below normal
Poor
128. Owing to the interruptions of through traffic to Canton, train inspection was carried out partly at the terminus station, Kowloon, and partly at Lo Woo station on the border. A total of 1,452,698 passengers
was examined. 472,569 vaccinations were done and 126,846 cholera in- oculations were given.
139. 610 aircraft from infected ports, carrying 4,278 passengers were inspected. 954 passengers and 3,569 crew inoculations were performed. From 1st December, 1950, the charge for these inoculations were reduced from $20 to $15.
5
283
246
37
T
691
478
112
1
10
59%
478
116
12
842
121
116
15
239
224
15
18
29
25
Total
2,582
2,171
400
11
32
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