Documentary History of Public Health in Hong Kong

This book tells the fascinating story of the development of medical andsanitation services in Hong Kong during the first century of Britishrule and how changing political values and directions of the colonialadministration and the socio-economic status of the Hong Kong affectedthe policies of development in these areas. It also recounts how thebubonic plague of 1894 changed the government's laissez-faire attitudetowards sanitation and public health and began sanitary reforms anddeveloped public health infrastructure.