CO129-567-11 Quarantine and Prevention of Diseases Ordinance- 1936- proposed new regulations 28-10-1938 - 19-5-1939 — Page 10

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Health, to whom the proposed

new regulations have been

referred, as desired, states

that Regulation 3(f) requiring

vessels and aircraft to be

deratised "if the restrictions are

imposed on account of typhus" appears

to be inconsistent with the International

Sanitary Convention, 1926, and the

International Sanitary Convention

for Aerial Navigation, 1933, and the

Minister is advised that it is contrary

to present day knowledge of the aetiology

of epidemic typhus. If the

Regulation is intended to control endemic

typhus (Brill's disease) which is

spread

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