Annual report of the Director of Public Health of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.
- United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India). Public Health Department
- Date:
- [1925]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report of the Director of Public Health of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![as their friends and guardians, which cannot be said is the case in India. For this reason, in Japan it has been possible to make the police res¬ ponsible for the carrying out of all public health measures. 94. At the instance of the Governing Body of the Indian Research Fund Association, Major J. A. Sinton, v.c., o.b.e., the UnftedfProvinces* I-M-S., officer in charge Malaria Bureau, Kasauli, visited these provinces with a view to inspecting all literature, reports, and proceedings relating to the work done on malaria here, in connexion with the compilation and publication of an authoritative and complete bibliography of malaria in India. He was afforded every facility and was exceedingly satisfied with what he saw. He stated that a very large amount of work appeared to have been done by the officers of the Public Health department as part of their routine duties, which in other countries would have been the subject of special articles in the scientific press. 95. A Conference of assistant directors of public health and certain selected district and municipal medical officers of ^on health and civil surgeons and others was held at Naini Tal in September, 1925, to discuss matters of public health, more particularly the improvement of rural sanitation and the health of villages under the presidency of the Hon’ble Rai Rajeshwar Bali Sahib, O.B.E., Minister of Education and Public Health on the 7th, 8th, and 10th and of His Excellency the Governor on the 11th. At this various problems were discussed and important resolutions passed. Copies of the proceedings of the Conference were supplied to Govern¬ ment, the members of the Legislative Council, commissioners of divisions, district officers, civil surgeons, chairmen, municipal and district boards, etc. 96. Health weeks were organized at various places but that organized by Dr. Har Govind Dayal Mathur, D.P.H., Health weeks- etc., Medical Officer of Health, Benares, was a model one and copies of a very interesting report submitted by him were forwarded to all the municipal medicaPofficers of health to be laid before the municipal boards concerned with a view to similar propaganda being undertaken in those municipalities. I give a short r6sum6 of the arrangements made as I consider that the example of Benares should be copied by all other towns with much benefit to the cause of public health. A special committee as representative as possible was formed and it organized a health week the activities of which comprised the following : — (1) A general and thorough clean-up of the town. (2) Health publicity by means of posters, pamphlets, exhibitions, lectures, etc. (a) Posters.—These were of six kinds and printed both in Hindi and Urdu. No. ]. Was first put up and announced the observance of the health week from October 11 to 16, 1925, and outlined the activities during the period. No. 2 (Illustrated).—Stressed the working together of the public and the Health department and showed that lack of unity of purpose leads to dirt, ill-health, poverty, and death ; while f](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31404881_0072.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
