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HEALTH

It is responsible, through the Urban Services Department, for the enforcement of this legislation within the urban areas of the Colony. The department has an establishment of 10,176 and is organized for administrative purposes into three main divisions. One deals with cleansing, conservancy, cemeteries and crematoria, one with food and general hygiene, and the other with hawkers, markets, slaughter-houses and public amenities. Most of these divisional responsibilities have been extended to the New Terri- tories, and for the purpose of co-ordinating activities a separate division has been set up under the control of an Assistant Super- intendent of Urban Services. The establishment of the department includes 360 administrative, professional and clerical posts, ex- cluding the health inspectorate and the Hawker Control Force. The inspectorate has an establishment of 304 posts and 258 officers have passed the examination of the Royal Society for the Promo- tion of Health. The Hawker Control Force is a disciplined force under a gazetted officer seconded from the police. It has an approved complement of 337 including inspectors, non-commis- sioned officers and constables.

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HYGIENE SECTION

District Health Work. The hygiene division is responsible, through the district health staff under the Assistant Superintendent (Hygiene), for maintaining proper standards of environmental hygiene throughout the urban areas. The division also assists the Medical and Health Department in the control of infectious diseases. Five health officers, seconded by the Medical and Health Department, act as professional advisers on all matters of hygiene and control of infectious diseases including food-poisoning cases.

The district health organization is under the general supervision of the Assistant Superintendent (Hygiene). The urban area of Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Kowloon is divided up into 232 health units. In the older residential areas each unit has about 600 floors, but the number varies greatly in other districts. The health units are grouped into 95 districts each in charge of a health inspector, and these districts in turn are combined to form 13 areas under the control of senior health inspectors. Their work is supervised by four chief health inspectors, who are responsible to the assistant

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