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Director of Division of Malariology.
Director of Division of Sanitary Engineering. Director of the Division of Pharmacology.
Health Officers must possess a Diploma in Public Health in addition to a quali- fication in general medicine and surgery.
The Hellenic Health Service will absorb the present Central Sanitary Adminis- tration, the School of Hygiene and all other Services existing in 1932-33.
It shall have power to create or abolish divisions or institutions within the service.
It shall take measures to prevent disease and improve the Public Health.
It shall be entrusted with the supervision of all public health and diagnostie laboratories.
It shall control quarantine measures.
It shall supervise the manufacture of foods and their preparation and sale.
It shall control the manufacture of vaccines and sera and biological products.
It shall act as advisary body to other departments in questions affecting the public health.
Its Medical Officers may be seconded to other state or local departments
It shall co-ordinate both public health activities central and local with those of municipal and private organisations.
It shall deal with questions of sanitation including methods of preventing the contamination of water supplies.
It shall carry out all such other public health functions as the President of the Council of Ministers may decide to entrust to it.
ORGANISATION OF COMMUNAL HEALTH SERVICES.
Supervision of hospitals, dispensaries, health centres, and other similar in- stitutions collaboration between voluntary and Stato bodies concerned in the adminis- tration of such institutions.
Registration of Physicians. Dentists, Pharmacists, Midwives and Nurses,
Government should transfer its hospitals to the municipalities subject to the financial supervision of the public authorities and the supervision of the Technical Health Services.
The administration of private hospitals while entirely independent shall be sub- ject to the sanitary supervision of the Technical Health Service.
QUARANTINE SERVICE.
The Port Sanitary Service, including their administrative services and equip- ment should form part of the Central Sanitary Administration. These sanitary ser- vices should include :--
(a) Control of the sanitary condition of ships on their arrival and de-
parture and during their stay in ports.
(b) Work of disinfection, deratisation and of disinsectisation as well for
the destruction of rats in docks as in the sheds and stores.
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(e) Necessary measures for treatment, observation and surveillance of passengers and crews found to be suffering or suspected to be suf- fering from an infectious or contagious disease.
(1) Lazerettes including the administration of the lazarette of St.
George in the case of the Piraeus.
(e) Furnishing of bills of health and certificates of deratisation and of
exemption from deratisation.
2. The necessary legal powers should be taken or regulations adopted to assist the Port Sanitary Authorities to apply the rules laid down in the International Sani- tary Convention of 1926 recently ratified by Greece.
The Service of the Piraeus Tall be under the control of the Central Sanitary Administration.
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