(a) The Undesirable Medical Advertisement Ordinance.
1952.
21. Although enacted in January, 1953 this Ordinance did not come into operation until 1st April, 1953. Its enactment resulted in a very considerable addition to the work of the Department as a flood of dubious proposed advertisements were submitted for opinion. This continued throughout the year but there is little doubt that the enactment of this Ordinance has had a decidedly beneficial effect in reducing the number of undesirable advertisements of medicines, and remedies purport- ing La cure, cancer, tuberculosis, venereal disease and other diseases. It was departmental policy not to prosecute imme- diately but to seek the co-operation of the Medicine Dealers' Guild and the local press and this was readily given but in future, serious offenders will be prosecuted.
(6) The Medical Registration (Amendment) (No. 2)
Ordinance, 1953.
22. Various minor amendments of the Medical Registration Ordinance were made and one major amendment. The latter resulted from the enactment of the Medical Registration Act of 1950 in the United Kingdom providing for compulsory hospital service of medical graduates before full registration. Before the United Kingdom enactment there was complete reciprocity of medical registration between the United Kingdom and Hong Kong and, to maintain this reciprocity, it was necessary to make provisions similar to those of the United Kingdom. The amend- ing ordinance became effective on 1st July, 1953 and after this date all medical graduates of the University of Hong Kong could only have their names placed upon the medical register of the Colony after having served in hospital in a resident medical capacity for twelve months,
23. Before the end of the year information was received from the General Medical Council that in view of this legislation, Hong Kong registration would continue to be accepted in the United Kingdom.
24. In view of the number of recent amendments to this ardinance and the fact that further amendments appeared
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necessary it was decided to revise the whole Ordinance and the first draft of the new Ordinance had been prepared and was under consideration by Government and the Medical Board at the close of the year under review.
(c) Radio-active Substances Bill.
25. In order to regulate the import and use within the Colony of radio-active substances and radiating apparatus, legislation based upon a recently enacted New Zealand Ordinance is under consideration. This legislation is needed to give power of control over the considerable numbers of untrained or partly trained persons who are operating X-ray diagnostic equipment and, therapeutic equipment, and to check the importation of radio-active substances.
(d) Quarantine and Prevention of Diseases Ordinance.
26. The need to amend Part 2 of this Ordinance to meet the provisions of the International Sanitary Convention and the desirability of other changes affecting the public health and sanitation of the Colony in general led to a decision to re-enact this Ordinance as a whole and the first draft of a new Ordinance has been prepared and is at present under consideration.
Registered Medical and Dental Practitioners, etc.
27. Medical and dental practitioners together with phar- macista, nurses and midwives are required by Ordinance to be registered before practising their professions in the Colony. The Director of Medical and Health Services is the ex-officio chairman of the Boards constituted under the respective Ordinances.
28. The numbers of persons registered under these Ordin- ances are as follows:
Registered Medical Practitioners, designers*****
423
Registered Dentists
331
Registered Pharmacista
日1
Registered Nurses (female)
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762
Registered Nurses (male)
11
Registered Midwives
783
The figures exclude persons in Government service who are listed in Appendix 1.
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