TYPHOID FEVER ġ S.L.36.07 1
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 36.07
TYPHOID FEVER REGULATIONS 
19th March, 1943
GOVERNMENT NOTICE 145 of 1943.
Title.
Fever Regulations. 
Inoculation 
treatment.
2. 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.
Period within 
which inoculation 
is to take place.
3. 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.
Duty of parent.
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.
