Annual departmental report by the Director of Medical and Health Services / Hong Kong.

  • Hong Kong. Medical Department.
Date:
[1952]
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Credit: Annual departmental report by the Director of Medical and Health Services / Hong Kong. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    54. A pest control officer is responsible for anti-rodent measures in the urban areas. 55. The department is also responsible for anti-epidemic work, health education of the public, port health work, the opera¬ tion of maternal and child health services which includes a school health programme, social hygiene work, tuberculosis and malaria and mosquito control. Rural Areas. 56. The Medical Officer of Health, New Territories has under his jurisdiction an area of some 350 square miles which includes numerous islands and has a population of about 200,000. 57. His staff consists of a Senior Health Inspector and five Health Inspectors each of whom is responsible for a district of the New Territories wherein he supervises all public health matters. HYGIENE & SANITATION Refuse Removal & Conservancy Services. 58. Refuse removal and conservancy services in the Urban Council area are the responsibility of a Superintendent of Sanitary Services under whom a Chief Health Inspector directly superintends the work. 59. Two systems of night soil disposal are in operation, (a) a water carriage system with sewers serving part of the City of Victoria and discharging directly into the harbour and (b) bucket conservancy which is necessitated in certain areas by the old type of premises prevailing. It is the single bucket system which operates generally but the two pail pilot scheme initiated in Kowloon in the previous year to serve 320 houses was extend¬ ed to serve 100 floors on Hong Kong Island. This worked very