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General Medical Council of Great Britain since 1911. Both the government and the university maintain a post-graduate training programme. Opportunities also are available for doctors to sit higher professional examinations in Hong Kong by arrangement with various bodies.

The university produces 150 doctors a year. A further 100 a year will eventually graduate from Hong Kong's second medical school, to be established at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1981.

A dental scholarship scheme enables a number of students from Hong Kong to study dentistry overseas. But, from 1980, dentists will be trained at a dental school to be set up at the University of Hong Kong.

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The School of Physiotherapy run by the Medical and Health Department trains physiotherapists for government service as well as for government-assisted hospitals. In-service training is provided for other-para-medical grades of staff to enable them to qualify as radiographers, laboratory technicians, dispensers, prosthetists, and mould laboratory and dental technicians. In addition, other officers are sent abroad to qualify as pharmacists, occupational therapists, dietitians, speech therapists, audiology tech- nicians, clinical psychologists, chemists and scientific officers.

There are three government hospital schools of nursing. Two are for general nursing and the other for psychiatric nursing. Other approved nursing training schools are attached to government-assisted or private hospitals. There also are courses for training enrolled nurses in general nursing and psychiatric nursing. One-year courses in obstetric nursing for registered nurses are available.

The government conducts a continuous post-graduate overseas training programme for graduate nurses as well as in-service training in various specialties. It also runs training courses for health visitors and health nurses engaged in public health work.

Environmental Hygiene

The work of the Urban Services Department includes street cleaning, collecting and disposing of refuse and nightsoil, managing public toilets and bathhouses, and dis- posing of the dead. It operates as the executive arm of the Urban Council in the urban area and comes under the Director of Urban Services in the New Territories. Each day, the department collects an average of 2,450 tonnes of refuse and junk. Of this, about 1,500 tonnes is burnt at two refuse incinerators at Kennedy Town on Hong Kong Island and at Lai Chi Kok in Kowloon. The remainder is disposed of at controlled tipping sites. All streets and lanes are swept at least once a day. In some parts of the city, the frequency is stepped up to eight times a day. Streets are washed and road gullies emptied once a week. Nightsoil is collected free of charge. The need for this service is continuing to decline as old buildings are replaced by new buildings fitted with proper sewage disposal systems. Some 2.81 million gallons of nightsoil were collected in 1976-7. The department provides and maintains 198 public toilets and 57 public bathhouses in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories. Apart from a few coin-operated toilets, all these are open to the public without charge.

Controls

District supervisory staff, consisting of health inspectors, overseers and foremen, regularly patrol all public streets, lanes and other public places to ensure that street