Health Inspection
The Urban District is divided into five areas. A Health Officer is responsible in each area for health and sanitation and for supervising and directing the work of the health inspectors employed in his area. Each area is divided into health districts in charge of each of which is a health inspector. Other health inspectors are employed in special duties connected with the control of hawkers, anti-epidemic measures, scavenging, etc. Altogether there are sixty-two health districts in the urban district of which thirty-seven are on the Island and twenty-five in Kowloon and New Kowloon.
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The New Territories are divided into five Health Districts of which three are situated on the mainland and two on the islands. previously mentioned, the District Commissioner, New Territories, is advised by the Director of Medical and Health Services and is assisted by a Health Officer and the District Health Inspectors. are seconded for the purpose from the Sanitary Department.
Refuse Disposal
The latter
Approximately 800 tons of domestic refuse are removed daily from the Urban District by the departmental refuse lorries. This refuse is carried by barges of special design and is used as filling for reclamation on the north-east side of the harbour, at Kuntong.
Conservancy
A daily average of 200 tons of excremental wastes are removed from 41,000 domestic floors in the Urban District.
A small proportion is made available to the Department of Agriculture for use as fertilizer Before release for distribution by farmers in the New Territories.
it is matured for 28 days in closed tanks to destroy harmful pathogenic organisms. The remainder is jettisoned at sea at a position in the waters of the Colony where tidal action carries the waste matter to sea without danger of pollution to the shores of the Colony and or to the adjacent coastline.
Although many of the more modern buildings are provided with water closets, removal of nightsoil from the majority of buildings is by the pail conservancy system. This service requires a departmental staff of approximately 1,300. A scheme is now under consideration for producing fertilizer by composting organic refuse with excremental waste. The conservancy collection service of the future must of necessity fit in with the scheme for composting.
Personal Hygiene
The Chinese working man is accustomed to take daily baths, but as few tenement houses have bathrooms he cannot do so unless facilities
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