Health in the United Kingdom dependencies.

  • Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division
Date:
1956
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Credit: Health in the United Kingdom dependencies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The South Pacific Health Service is supervised and controlled by the South Pacific Health Board. The Board’s chief administrative officer and chairman is the Inspector-General, South Pacific Health Service, who is appointed by the United Kingdom Secretary of State for the Colonies in consultation with the New Zealand Government. Also on the Board are representatives of Fiji, the New Zealand Department of Health, the Western Pacific High Commission and the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (see p. 30). The South Pacific Health Board helps participating administrations by, among other things, advising on all health matters within their territories; collecting and transmitting information regarding the incidence of disease and encouraging medical research; assisting in maintaining adequate medical, nursing and sanitary staff and advising on their training. Full use is made by participating administrations of the Central Medical School, Suva (see p. 26), and the Medical Department of Fiji, for the training of assistant medical practitioners, laboratory technicians, sanitary inspectors, pharmacists and other auxiliary health personnel, and of the leprosy settlement at Makogai for the treatment of leprosy patients. A pool of medical officers, from which participating administrations draw on a system _ of transfer or secondment, is based on the headquarters of the South Pacific Health Service in Suva and a pool of nurses is based on New Zealand. Nurses of local origin trained in hospitals in their own islands are sent in limited numbers for special courses at the Nurses Training School, Suva. The East Africa High Commission Much of the work of the East Africa High eorinesiont which was established in 1948, is concerned with the health of the people of East Africa. In 1952 the East African Standing Advisory Committee for Medical Research was set up to advise on the needs for medical research in the East African territories and the practical application of the results of such research and to keep under review the facilities for inter-territorial colla- boration in research. The Committee in 1954 became the East African Council for Medical Research, which held its first meeting in Nairobi in January 1955. The East African Bureau of Research in Medicine and Hygiene, established in 1949 with headquarters in Nairobi, promotes co-operation in medical research and advises on policy. The East Africa Medical Survey, set up in 1949, shares headquarters at Mwanza in Tanganyika with the Filariasis Research Unit established in 1950. The Medical Survey seeks to obtain a complete assessment of the state of health and disease in East Africa, carries out research into the more important diseases and has launched pilot schemes of disease control. The East African Malaria Institute was set up at Amani in Tanganyika in 1950 and is now being expanded, with the aid of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, as a centre of research, planning and direction of control measures throughout East Africa. In addition to malaria pilot control schemes, the Institute has completed various studies of the mosquito vectors and the effects of insecticides and has trained Africans 1For an account of the work of the East Africa High Commission see COI Reference paper R.3034 of May 1955, Regional Co-operation in British East Africa.
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