LEGISLATORS plan to pressure the Government to improve its handling of cholera as the number of cases has reached its highest level for 30 years.
The number of cases for the year so far is 34, the highest since 1964 when there were also 34 cases.
Three cases have been reported in the past two days, bringing this month's figure to 10 and the number now in hospital to five.
Councillors say the Government should step up efforts to stop the bacterium getting into food, particularly from dirty harbour water. Polluted water used to keep fish in restaurants was blamed for a single outbreak among 12 people in Aberdeen in June.
Only five of the several dozen restaurant water suppliers have requested permits to enter Sai Kung Country Park to collect water from the site recommended by the Environmental Protection Department, according to the Agriculture and Fisheries Department.
An Urban Services Department representative said it could not stop water trucks taking water from the polluted harbour, despite recommending that restaurants avoid such suppliers. There have been no prosecutions under by-laws requiring restaurant water to meet certain standards.