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Once a fortnight senior officers make formal inspections of licensed premises, with 'spot checks' once a week, in addition to the visits by District Senior Health Inspectors in the evening after normal office hours. This new system of supervision has been successful and a large number of irregularities have been dis- covered and put right.

Six Food Inspectors-three in Hong Kong and three in Kowloon -carry out food sampling and other duties in connexion with food hygiene. Close attention was paid to ice-cream factories, milk shops and other food establishments, and samples were taken regularly to ensure that the required standards are maintained.

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During the summer season when the sale of prohibited food or drinks was common, raiding teams were organized day and night to suppress this illegal trading altogether. 5,551 lbs of food- stuff and 189 gallons of drinks were seized and disposed of during the hot season of the year.

In an effort to encourage health consciousness among the com- munity, four 'Miss Ping On' campaigns, each of three months, were held with the themes 'Your Food and You', 'Home Safety', 'Correct-Disposal of Refuse', and 'Destruction of Insects and

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The 'Keep Your City Clean' campaign, which opened with a pilot scheme in August 1959 in the Western District of Hong Kong and the Sham Shui Po District of Kowloon, was extended in December of that year to the Eastern District of Hong Kong and the Yau Ma Tei District of Kowloon. It was again extended in October 1960 to the Bay View and Shau Kei Wan Districts of Hong Kong and the Mong Kok, Hung Hom and To Kwa Wan Districts of Kowloon. As part of the campaign, two meetings were attended by office bearers of all Kaifong Welfare Associations at which the aims of the campaign were explained and a series of films shown.

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The 'Miss Ping On' competition, 1960, sponsored by the Health Education Select Committee of the Urban Council, opened on 1st October in the nine multi-storey resettlement estates at Shek Kip Mei, Lei Cheng Uk, Tai Hang Tung, Hung Hom, Lo Fu Ngam, Wong Tai Sin, Jordan Valley, Kwun Tong and Chai Wan. It was held as part of the Council's health education campaign