The health programme is under the Girection of the "Kiangsi Provincial Health Department, a new branch of the administration inaugurated on. June 8, 1994. Tals Department, besides Controlling the Provincial Hospital and Provincial midwifery schoo}, and various laboratories and health stations belonging to the Government, has a wide range of activities, both in Nanchang, the capital of the prov-Ince, and in' the country districts, For example, at Nanchang, the Department has charge of the sanitary Arrangement of the city; directs the vaccination campaign and trains the personnel for this work; conducts health propaganda and public health courses: and arranges for public relict work during the summer months when disease is especially prevalent in the city. A notable feature is the work Ju the schools, of which Dr. Stampar writes; "At the suggestion of the Public Health Department, a com: mittee on school health was appointed. 'The Public Health Department undertakes the supply of technical experts and medical materials, and also bears three-fifths of the' total annual expenses of this committee. There are two doctors, and three nurses sent and paid by the Department. In addition there is one doctor with two nurses salaried by the Department of Education. This medical staff is held responsible for sanitary Supervision, health inspection, and medical treatment of 15,000 students tu the $0 primary schools and eight high school in Nanchang."
Treatment in Former Communist Areas The Department is carrying out! similar work in Kiukiang, the port of Kiangsi on the Yangtze; and last summer it also opened an'offise for sanitary engineering at Kuling, the well-known health resort, In the country districts, besides controlling the health work of the welfare. centre and appointing their sta of doctors, the Department has) been fespeciaily active, as the following. extract from Dr. Stampar's report will show: "At the end of March of this year there were 20 medical units at various biens in the areas newly Feeaptured from the Communists.
Towards the end of June, 1935, Department and one medical unt and eighteen temporary clinics. Moreover, the Department constantly despatches lis technical experts to the different hhslens. It has also been improving the poor conditions existing inside and surrounding all hsien hospitals and clinics and other institutions, by Fequiring that all doctors working in the hsien hospitals and_ctinies shall Jobtain licences from the Licence Committee of the health administration, Nanking; that a set of standard lists for equipment and, drugs be. made The chief obstacle to further devel-lopment of this programme is the lack of sum cient well-trained physicians.
Dr. Stampar's report then makes a number of recommendations, the /most important of which is that there should be greater ce-ordination of the Aifferent welfare activities which are) being undertaken.
In conclusion, Dr. Stampar sums his" Impressions a follows; "My. visits to the different institutions were made without any previous warning to the staff. In discussion with cept tatives of the various rural welfare departments in Kiangsi, I obtained very good Impression, and every-wiiers met understanding, appreciation land willingness, Having seen a con: siderable number of farmers coming to the welfare centres for advice and help, was convinced, that althourn the centres were opened some months a0, the rural population is already taking certain interest in them.
This {s clear from the fact that the rural population always is ready to give or assign the plots of land for {the experimental farms of the welfare feentres..........1f the activities are enlarged to a wider field and certain Jehanges made, the welfare work will, in all likelihood, be successful, and 50 serve as a good example to all other provinees, From this point of view, the work will be of importance for ithe whole of China, and deserves all the support of the Central as ~vell as fof the Provincial government."—Kuo
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