FAR EAST HEALTH BEING DISCUSSED AT BANDOENG HONG KONG'S DELEGATE
Important health problems of the Far East are being discussed at the Conference on rural hygiene which opened on August 3 at Bandoeng, with Dr. D. J. Valentine representing Hong Kong, and which will continue until August 13, under the auspices of the health organisation department of the League. of Nations.
Delegates are in attendance from 190 per cent of the total population North Borneo, Burma, Ceylon, Chi- of the East living outside the prin na. the Fiji Islands,, the Gilbert cipal centres.
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and Ellis Islands, the Condominium Another item on the agenda con- of the New Hebrides, Hong Kong, Icerns the main diseases of the Far India and four Indian states, the East and the measures required to Netherlands East Indies, French combat them. Among these are ma- Indo-China, Japan, the Straits laria, plague, hookworm, tuberculo- Settlement and Federated Malaysis, pneumonia, the yaws and le- States, the Philippines, Siam, the prosy. Protectorate of the British Solomon The conference expects to estab-pens, which may be amberlained at any of his Isles and the Tonga Archipelago. lish a close contact between the A preparatory committee repre-health services of the different- senting countries of the Far East countries so that a wide and multi- collected intensive information lateral exchange of experiences, about existing conditions and sani-working methods and ideas may be tary services last year, and it is on possible. the basis of this study that the agenda of the conference has been prepared.
Training Problems
The problem will be discussed whether only highly trained medi- cal practitioners ought to be ad- mitted, or whether a quicker and less complicated training ought to be possible and advisable, to pro- vide for the necessary medical staff. with regard to the huge number of country, people.
Another item concerns. the rising interest in the lives of the rural population and a desire to improve their conditions. The report of the committee provided for a right edu- cation, propaganda for intensive hygiene work and keeping alive the interest of the people themselves.
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