File 54132.
SECRET
HONG KONG
CIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES
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54152
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
under the Urban Council should be absorbed into the Medical Department
as Health Inspectors.
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 in their former level as early as possible.
Epidemiological Information
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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
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, particularly in relation to the organisation
of the Medical Department as it existed in December, 1941.
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University of Hong Kong
The Medical School should be re-opened as soon as possible,
priority being given to the re-establishment of facilities for the