CO129-591-9 Policy directives 15-1-1945 - 15-1-1945 — Page 40

SECRET

HONG KONG

CIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES

MEDICAL AND HEALTH POLICY

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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 îhould be transferred to

the establishment of the Medical Department and seconded for

duty as required,

2.

Policy.

Essential

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,

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.

3. 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 Bye-lawe 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

Bye-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 ita

formes

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