SECRET

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HONG KONG

CIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES

64132

Revised Draft

9/5/44.

MEDICAL AND HEALTH POLICY

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

Tatier in the i under the Urban Council should be absorbed into the Medical Department

as Health Inspectors

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Policy

2.

for duty

The general direction of medical policy should follow the lines laid down in the Colonial Office Paper, Miscellaneous No. 505

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Essential health services

particularly

interdiction of Teams. It

on Medical Policy in the Colonial Empire. should be restored in their former level as early as possible,

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3.

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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 regional organisation which may take its place, for the exchange of epidemiological information.

Legislation

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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, Ordinal 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, particularly in relation to the organisation of the Medical Department as it existed-in December, 1941.

5.

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That The Medical School should be re-opened as soon as possible, priority being given to the re-establishment of facilities for the

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