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

Date:
1937
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    PERSONNEL OF THE DEPARTMENT. A. HEADQUARTER STAFF. The Director of Public Health. The position of the Director of Public Health may be briefly summed up by stating that he is the head of a department serving directly under Government, and is the adviser to the local Government on all questions concerning public health. The nature and full scope of his duties were laid down in General Department Circular No. 24, dated April 27th, 1908. Assistant Directors of Public Health. There are at present two Assistant Directors of Public Health ; they have their headquarters in Rangoon at the office of the Director of Public Health. They divide between them duties in connection with sanitation of urban and rural areas, accounts, epidemiology, propaganda and publicity, statistics, vaccination, epidemics, school medical inspection, maternity and child welfare and port health measures. Both these officers are, also, partly employed in teaching, and they tour throughout the country as necessity demands. In the report of the Burma Public Health Department Reorganisation Committee in 1929, it was stated that the existing staff of two Assistant Directors sanctioned in 1913 was insufficient and that an additional Assistant Director was necessary if the activities of the department were not to suffer. The necessity of appointing a third Assistant Director of Public Health was again referred to the local Government at the beginning of this year. Hygiene Publicity Officer. This appointment originated in 1924 and lasted up to the end of February 1932, when it was held in abeyance owing to financial stringency and has remained vacant ever since. The primary duties of this officer were (I) to prepare all necessary health publicity materials, including type lectures, pamphlets,
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