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COLONIAL SECRETARY'S Department.
No. S. 156. It is hereby notified that information has been received from the Director, League of Nations Eastern Bureau, Singapore, to the effect that Hong Kong has been declared an infected port on account of smallpox as from 6th February, 1940, by the Government of British North Borneo.
All persons who have left Hong Kong within the previous fourteen days and who on arrival are in the opinion of the Port Health Officer not sufficiently protected by recent vaccination or by a previous attack of smallpox, may be subjected to vaccination or observation or surveillance or to vaccination followed by observation or surveillance, the period of observation or surveillance being specified according to the circumstances, but in any event not exceeding fourteen days reckoned from the date of departure from Hong Kong.
4th April, 1940.
N. L. SMITH,
Colonial Secretary.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEpartment.
No. S. 157. Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted by Hong Kong.
Disease.
Port or Place.
Restriction in Force.
Authority.
Typhus.
Shanghai.
Medical Inspection, Disinfection and Quarantine at
the discretion of the Health Officer.
Cholera.
Amoy.
Cholera.
Swatow.
Medical inspection, inoculation, disinfection and quarantine at the discretion of the Port Health Officer.
Do.
Cholera.
Canton.
Do.
Notification No. 345 of 6th May, 1938.
Notification No. 396 of 18th May, 1938.
Notification No. 429 of 29th May 1938.
Notification No. 565 of 28th July,
1938.
Cholera.
Foochow.
Do.
Cholera.
Tientsin.
Do.
5th April, 1940.
Notification No. 753 of 29th Sept., 1938.
Notification
No. 1059 of 13th Nov., 1939.
N. L. SMITH,
Colonial Secretary.
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