Annual report on the Medical Department / Straits Settlements.

  • Straits Settlements. Medical Department.
Date:
[1926]
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Credit: Annual report on the Medical Department / Straits Settlements. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Decides.—That expert advice be obtained without delay as to the best methods for ensuring regularity and accuracy in the reception of the weekly bulletins; That the wireless bulletins be supplemented by cables only at the express desire of the interested administrations and whenever possible at their own expense (preferably by prepaid cables at Government rates); That the credits recommended for cables in the estimates for 1926 should be curtailed in relation to the extension of the wireless transmission of bulletins; That the Weekly Fasciculus should give regularly all relevant information regarding the transmission and reception by wireless of the Bureau’s messages. Invites.—All the administrations of the four groups of ports, to supply the Bureau at the earliest possible moment with the following information : — (a) What difficulties, if any, are experienced in picking up the Saigon message (give technical details). (b) What steps, if any, were taken to overcome the difficulties (indicate technical methods employed). (c) Which other wireless stations are regularly picked up by your station (indicate dates, hours, wave lengths and all requisite technical details). (1d) In particular are the powerful European Stations (St. Assizes, Rugby and Nauen) in regular'communication with your station (give all technical details). (e) Can the messages re-broadcasted from Bombay 09-00 and 17-00 G. M. T. each Friday after the weather message, on a wave length of 2,000 metres, be picked up regularly or otherwise, by your station ? (/) Does the application of the methods found effective by some of the stations (as indicated in Appendix E) give the desired solution ? (g) What suggestions can be offered for improving the reception of the weekly wireless message ? Vi. The Advisory Council— Noting that the Director of the Bureau has been requested from time to time to give information about the work of the League of Nations in general, and of its Health Organisation in particular, and considering it desirable that the Bureau should be enabled so far as practicable to supply such information, suggests that the Secretariat of the League might be invited to assist the Bureau in this respect, it being understood that such expenses as might be so incurred (supply of publications, etc.,) would be a charge on the Secretariat of the League. VII. The Advisory Council— Considering that the International Health Organisation should include in its programme of activities the promotion of studies and investigations into the great problems of public health in the East, Considering that the claims of malarial research in the Far East are already recognised by the Health Committee of the League, Considering that the testing of the value of oral vaccination against acute intestinal diseases is a matter of very considerable importance and that in order to give conclusive results the tests should be carried out in several countries in accordance with a scheme of inquiry agreed upon by the participating national health administrations and medical research institutes, Considering that the endemic foci of cholera in the Far East present the most favourable field for elucidating some of the unsolved problems of the epidemiology of this disease,