Agreement Over Collaboration in Studying and Solving Health'
Problems: Measures for Port Quarantine The agreement between the Ministry of Health of the National Government and the Health Section of the League of Nations has finally been ratified and the letters with regard to this. very important work between Dr, J. Hong Liu, Minister of Health, and Dr. D. Rajehman; Director of the Health Section of the League of Nations, are to be made public in Nanking and Geneva, This correspondence is rather voluminous and covers a vast field of work. Dr. Liu's proposal. for collaboration between his ministry and the League Health Organization contains the following provisions: form in providing suitable facilities both in regard to undergraduate] and post-graduate istruction. It is hoped to secure the collaboration of the competent commission of the: Health Organization in preparing a memorandum on the recent progress in the reform of medical teaching for the provision of fclities for study tour of the officer who is, have charge of post-graduate instruction, and for the delegation to China, for 2 period of some months, of a League expert to advise with the National Commission on Medical Education of the Bfinistry of Education, While the foregoing will build up the foundations for 2 modera The previous decision of the Government to transfer the Quaran-Service now administered by the Ministry of Finance to the Ministry of Health, in concurrence With established precedent, led to the request for the League's collaboration in obtaining the benefit of the experiences of health services in other countries and in accelerating the building up of confidence in the reorganized techn ly improved port health admin tion. It is requested that the Health Organization should study in conjunction with the Transit Organization of the League, the steps that should be taken in the transfer and reorganization of the present quarantine service. It is understood from the Director of the Health Organization that a scheme may be elaborated driving 1930 and that -the preliminary study begun by the Pp Mission will completed The Ministry hopes also to participate: in the forthcoming Port Health Offic Interchange and for two or three officers to be trained abroad by the League for responsible posts in the reorganized servic The Ministry of Health has decided to use "its technical Headquarters stof? for field activities and to begin by establishing a Central Field Health Station as the nucleus of an eventual National Field Health Service. The important role that will be played by this Cental Station is appreciated and such even the: fundamental activities will take time to build up, Collaboration is desired in drawing up. the detailed plan for this! Station; in providing facilities for: study aprond of affeers selected for important position in this Station and the association of an expert. from the Health Organization during the initial stage of its organiza tion and development, In view of the necessity of providing a national institution for under-graduate instruction and for adnate training as well as to health administration, there is the immediate problem of smallpox and cholera control in Shanghai. During the stay in China of the! League's Mission, the Ministry in-ited the collaboration of the Health Services of the two Foreign Settlements, and it is hoped it may. be] also possible that, as a member of its Advisory Council, the Chinese Government may secure the col-Taboration of the Far Esstern Bureau of the League. Collaboration is also desired ina joint] epidemiological study of the cholera and smallpox situation in Shanghai, and the services of the Director of the Far Eastern Bureau for a time during the application in 1930) of control measures, In this connection, the League is to provide the following:
The technical collaboration of the Health Organization and its Commissions, as well as other Technical Organizations of the League for consultation in. drawing up specific health scheme To make available opportunity for participating in the advantages offered through changes of techni study fellowships.
Collaboration in the ment and the development. of the Central Field Station by stationing, technical officer of the Health. Organization in an advisory eapcity during the initial stage, Collaboration with the Commi: sion on Medical Education of the! Ministry of Education. A. request! from the Minister of Education is attached herewith, The Minister of Education, Dr. Chiang Monin joins in this agreement by requesting that the League of Nations assist his Ministry. in tthe following work:
Supplying information on the' programme of similar National Conimissions "in other countries; and Collaboration of the League' Commission on Education minent has decided to promote the establishment of the Firse National Howzrital.
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