TYPHOID FEVER REGULATIONS

TYPHOID FEVER

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 36.07

TYPHOID FEVER REGULATIONS

19th March, 1943

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 145 of 1943.

The title of these Regulations may be cited as the Typhoid

Fever Regulations.

The Chief Government Medical Officer may, by a notice

published in the Government Gazette and in two daily newspapers,

order that the inhabitants of any town or village or of any specified

section of a town or village or of any specified part of these Islands

shall receive inoculation treatment for the prevention of the

diseases known as typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever.

Every person over the age of two years residing within the

area to which any notice is published, as provided in regulation 2,

shall within fourteen days of the publication thereof, present

himself at such place and such time as may be specified in the said

notice to be inoculated by a medical officer deputed by the Chief

Government Medical Officer for the purpose, and he shall

thereafter present himself again at the place and time to be

indicated by the said medical officer for any further inoculation

that may be necessary

Provided that no person shall be compelled to submit to the

aforesaid preventive treatment if he satisfies the said medical

officer either -

(i)

that he had already suffered from typhoid fever,

or

(ii) that he had at any time during the previous two

years received the complete inoculation against

this disease, or

(iii) that his age or his state of health is such as to

render the said treatment inadvisable.

The parent or other person having the custody of a child

under eighteen years of age, to whom any order issued under

regulation 2 of these Regulations applies, is obliged to present such

child for inoculation in accordance with the provisions of these

Regulations.