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A CONFERENCE for Far Eastern countries on this subject was opened on August 3 by the Governor-General at Bandoeng, Java. This Conference was arranged by the League of Nations Health Organisation under the presidency of Dr. T. Offringa, director of the Netherlands Indies Public Health Service, with Dr. J. Rajchman, medical director of the League Health Committee, as secretary, assisted by Dr. C. L. Park, director of the Eastern Bureau of the Health Organi-ation. The Conference is meeting in five sections, hi which the following subjects will be discussed: (1) health and medical services: the advantages and disadvantages of training 'semi-qualified' or assistant doctors to assist the qualified medical staff, and possible alternatives ; (2) rural reconstruction and collaboration of the population, with the view of improving conditions of life in rural districts, a policy favoured by the Government of India and other countries; (3) sanitation and sanitary engineering, including housing, water supply, latrines, refuse disposal and fly control ; (4) nutrition, a subject of importance in the East, for it has been estimated that 75 per cent of the population of Asiatic countries exist on a diet below the standards fixed by European science ; (5) measures necessary to combat specific diseases, such as malaria, plague, tuberculosis, hookworm infection, yaws and leprosy, and mental diseases; also drug addiction.
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Far Eastern Conference on Rural Hygiene. Nature 140, 353 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140353b0
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