UNDULANT FEVER (PREVENTION) [ S.L.36.04 1
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 36.04
UNDULANT FEVER (PREVENTION) 
REGULATIONS 
8th February, 1924
GOVERNMENT NOTICE 50 of 1924.
Title.
(Prevention) Regulations.
Interpretation.
Cap. 36.
2. The words in these Regulations shall have the same
meaning as in the Prevention of Disease Ordinance.
Notice to 
Department of 
Health.
3. Every person keeping a cow, goat or sheep must give
notice thereof, within three days, on a special form to be obtained
from any Police station, stating all such particulars relating thereto
as may be called for by the Department of Health.
Branding of cows, 
etc.
4. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent for Public Health
to order that any cow, goat or sheep shall be branded, or shall wear
a marked collar, or earstud, or other mark, for the purpose of
identification. The branding, or any other identity mark, shall be
applied free of charge by the Department of Health in the manner
indicated by the Superintendent of Public Health.
Specimens of milk 
or blood.
5. It shall be lawful for any officer of the Department of
Health to inspect and examine at any time any cow, goat or sheep
and to take from any such animal one or more specimens of milk or
blood, or of both, with a view to ascertain whether such animal is
liable to transmit the infection of undulant fever.
Place where cows, 
etc., are kept.
6. Every place where any cow, goat or sheep is kept for the
sale of milk or its preparations shall be provided with window
space of not less than one twelfth of its superficial area and with
not less than two ventilating openings, situated as directed by the
Sanitary Authority, and of the aggregate area of six point five
square centimetres for every four point five metres of cubic space.
The floor of every such place shall be of impervious jointless
material and shall be provided with open gutters draining on to a
regular gully trap.
Inspection of 
premises.
7. It shall be lawful for any officer of the Department of
Health to enter any premises at any time in order to ascertain
whether any cow, goat or sheep is kept in contravention of these
Regulations.
