Intergovernmental conference of Far-Eastern countries on rural hygiene : preparatory papers.

Date:
1937
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    employed, it is the policy of this department to utilise the services of Burmans only. It is hoped that the placing of the cadre of the sub-assistant surgeons of this department on a permanent basis will remove one of the main difficulties of recruiting which has been experienced in the past. Public Health Inspectors. The employment of these officials in municipalties is governed by Section 43 of the Burma Municipal Act of 1898 as subsequently amended. The policy of the local Government may be summed up by explaining that it insists that properly qualified public health inspectors be appointed in sufficient number in every municipality. In 1913, a sanitary inspectors’ training-class was opened under the control and management of the health officer of the Rangoon Municipality. In 1921, this arrangement had to be altered. The control of health affairs in Rangoon City had, by then, been placed in the hands of a corporation, and the development of district councils under the Act of 1921 created a demand for many more public health inspectors in urban and rural areas. A training-class was therefore opened by this department in 1923. This class was held regularly from 1923 to 1933, by which time 213 public health inspectors had been trained. Originally held at the Government Medical School, Rangoon, the class was transferred in 1927 to the Harcourt Butler Institute of Public Health, which had then been opened with the idea that the training of these men should be one of its activities. In 1934, the class was discontinued, as investigations showed that all the public health inspectors trained had not been employed. It was, however, reopened in 1936, and this year, 1936/37, there are twenty-four men under training. The various subjects taught are allotted to carefully selected teachers, and the syllabus has been approved by the Royal Sanitary Institute, London. A period of one month is spent at the Rural Health Unit for practical field work. The whole course is conducted under the direction of the Director of Public Health himself. In 1929, the Burma Public Health Department Reorganisation Committee recommended the appointment of a public health
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