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3. The Quarantine and Prevention of Disease 
Acts 
4. The Sale of Food and Drugs Act (Straits and 
F-M.S), 
Those which apply locally are: — - 
1. The Municipal Ordinance and Sanitary Board 
Acts for cities, towns and villages. 
2. The Labour Code for estates and mines. 
Registration of Births and Deaths. 
The registration of Births’ and Deaths is compul- 
sory throughout the Straits Settlements, Federated 
Malay States and Unfederated Malay States. 
Every Settlement or State is divided into districts 
each under a Deputy Registrar who is either the 
Medical Officer in charge of a hospital, an officer in 
charge of a Police Station or the headman of a sub- 
district. Deaths must be registered within 12 hours 
and births within 14 days. 
Reports received by the Deputy Registrars are 
forwarded to the Registrar at definite intervals. 
In the Straits Settlements the Principal Civil 
Medical Officer, is the Registrar General, in the 
Federated Malay States the Senior Health Officer holds 
that post. 
Vaccination. 
Vaccination is compulsory for every person below 
the age of seven years. Most of the immigrant coolies 
either have been vaccinated before arrival or are done 
during their period of detention at the quarantine 
station. 
