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Two training courses, one in general nursing, the other in psychiatric nursing, for Nursing Auxiliaries (each of two-years' duration) are run at the Kowloon Hospital and Castle Peak Hospital respectively.

A nine-month course for Health Visitors continues to be held at the Tang Shiu Kin Hospital and this course prepares its entrants to sit for the examination of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health. Health Auxiliaries, who supplement the Health Visitor Service, continue to have a two-year training in health education and basic public health nursing, at the Tang Shiu Kin Hospital.

Government conducts a continuous post-graduate overseas training programme for graduate nurses... Subjects studied during 1970 were nursing administration, nursing education, dietetics, neuro-surgical nursing, orthopaedic nursing, intensive-care therapy and special operating theatre service.

The Hong Kong Examination Board of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health conducts examinations for the Diploma for Local Public Health Inspectors, the Diploma in Public Health Inspection for General Overseas Appointments, the Diploma in Tropical Hygiene for Public Health Inspectors and the Certificate for Health Visitors and School Nurses. Training for the Diploma for Local Public Health Inspectors, the Diploma in Public Health Inspection for General Overseas Appointments and the Diploma in Tropical Hygiene for Public Health Inspectors is carried out within the Urban Services Department.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Responsibility for environmental health service and for the dis- posal of the dead in the urban area rests with the Urban Council, working through the Urban Services Department. In the New Territories, the Director of Urban Services is responsible.

About 7,000 employees of the Urban Services Department are engaged in street cleansing, removal of refuse and nightsoil, and attending public conveniences and bathhouses. An average of 2,420 tons of refuse is collected and disposed of daily. Two large oil-fired incinerators operated by the Public Works Department disposed of slightly more than half of the total tonnage collected.