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HONG KONG
CIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES
MEDICAL AND HEALTH POLICY
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Revised Draft
31/5/44.
1.
Organisation.
The organisation of the Medical Department existing
in December, 1941, should be restored as soon as possible, with
the exception that the staff of Sanitary Inspectors previously
employed by the Sanitary Department should be transferred to
the establishment of the Medical Department and seconded for
duty as required.
2.
Policy.
The general direction of medical policy should follow
the lines laid down in the Colonial Office Paper, Miscellaneous
No. 505, on Medical Policy in the Colonial Empire.
Essential
health services should be restored to their former level as
early as possible, particularly in view of the specially
vulnerable position of Hong Kong in regard to the introduction
of transmissible disease.
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Epidemiological Information.
It should be the policy of Government to play its full
part in the re-establishment of the Far Eastern Bureau of the
League of Nations, or of any other organisation which may take
its place, for the exchange of epidemiological information.
40 Legislation.
Public Health legislation in force in December, 1941,
should be revived. The Urban Council Ordinance and the
various Public Health Ordinances, as well as the Regulations
and By-laws made thereunder, should be revised as soon as
practicable in the light of the experience which had been
acquired of the working of these ordinances, Regulations and
By laws.
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University of Hong Kong.
It is very necessary that the Medical School should be re-opened as soon as possible and that it should resume its
former