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Health Visitors, School Nurses and Health Inspectors. The Royal Society of Health examination board in Hong Kong con- ducts examinations for the health visitors and school nurses certificate, the public health inspectors diploma and the diploma in tropical hygiene for public health inspectors. A course for health visitors and school nurses is held by the Medical and Health Department, while training for health inspectors and in tropical hygiene is carried out within the Urban Services Department. Examinations for the diploma for inspectors of meat and other foods and other examinations of the Society are not held in Hong Kong. Candidates for these supplementary qualifications normally undergo training in the United Kingdom.

Radiographers are trained by the radiological service of the Medical and Health Department for the examinations leading to membership of the Society of Radiographers, which are held locally.

Other Training. Departmental training leading to study leave abroad for recognized qualifications is given to physicists and medical laboratory technologists. In-service training for depart- mental examinations is available for dispensers and laboratory technicians. A qualified physiotherapy tutor supervises a training centre in physiotherapy based on the curriculum of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists. There is also provision for a limited number of pharmacy scholarships tenable in Australia, under which students are sent to study for the degree of B Pharm. A scheme for training surgical appliance technicians is in progress.

URBAN SERVICES

The Urban Council has statutory obligations in the urban areas of the Colony for environmental sanitation and hygiene; the public health control of food; the enactment, subject to the approval of the Legislative Council, of by-laws relating to public health and hygiene, and for their enforcement; the maintenance of certain places of public recreation, principally parks, playgrounds and bathing beaches; and the operation of multi-storey car parks and the City Hall.

The Council derives its main powers from the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, and by-laws enacted thereunder.