Station and the Hospital will serve the parpose of establishing the principles fundamental health acti the country, and while already institutions elsewhere have undertaken health work on a more limited scale, it is felt that the dal of a' provincial health adi tion should be taken up for serious study, and the Government Kas decided on collaboration with one of the Provinces where conditions re favourable. It is already the intention of the Chekiang Gove ment to establish a provi hospital, which will also be as a base for the devolpment of preventive medical activities. It is hoped the latter will be extended gradually to the districts of the Province, and also throughout the country by utilising existing educational institutions as bases for public health work.
Assistance is-dasived in planning the First National and Chekiang Hospitals, in providing facil for their senior administrators to study abroad-and especially in ad= ug as to the gradual extension in the Chekiang unit as well as in the extension of the activities to other areas.
The Ministry of Education regards medical education as a major Question which requires urgent re.
Hygiene and Preventive Medicine which perhaps may be able to delegate an expert for several months in the coming year to China to work in conjunction with the National Commission, The full programme of work as! described in Dr, Rajchnian's reply is as follows:—
In framing the national programme of its activities the Ni Ministry of Health fully the immense amount of! effort required to insure primary, but effective and indispensable elements of sanitation at the chief centres of national activity, both urban and rural, to provide them adequate facilities for medical relief, to organize in these places fundamental medico-sanitary institutions, to sot up the framework of a devoted well-trained and efficient public health service, and. to introduce into the practice of the nation's daily life health habits. adapted to the national conditions.
The Ministry recognized that the attainment of a modern "standard of public health is dependent as much upon the economic derelopment and the financial re organ tion of the country as on the success of the educational efgrt, and that a general condition of ability is a factor of major imin the work of national!
No Health Service be they national or international in scope; have responsibility over these factors, some of which escape even the control of National Gorernments,
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