IV. 1 and 3 Membership The desirability of all States participating in the struggle against disease and particularly epidemic disease, is recognized, but the competent authority of the United Nations should regulate admission to membership. IV. 4 [1] Suspension of membership privileges, provided in the report, seems to provide against participation of undesirable States in the Organization. Functions of the World Health Conference VI. 3 (e) and III. (p) [1] The World Health Conference should be empowered to prepare and sign international conventions without recourse to special diplomatic conferences. (N.B. This was recommended by a majority of five to four in the Drafting Committee, the minority preferring to present it as an observation.) Special provision should be made for the signing of international health conventions and regulations, to cover the particular constitutional position of federal states. VI. (f) [1*] International health regulations should be in force only in States formally accepting them, instead of not formally rejecting them. [2] (The opposite view was held on grounds of expediency by one member.) [1] Regulations regarding medical standards and biological remedies for international trade should not be obligatory but submitted as recommendations. Regional Arrangements XII. A and XVII (6) Existing international regional health organizations (Pan American Sanitary Bureau) should be absorbed by the World Health Organization (alternativé A). (N.B. This was recommended by a majority of five to four in the Drafting Committee.) XII. B Should be co-ordinated with the World Health Organization (alternative B). Two members considered that the role of the Health Organization was to co-ordinate and to recommend, rather than direct the regional health work. [2] (N.B. A resolution leaving the choice between alternatives A and B to the Conference was the subject of a five to four vote.) In any case the Regional Health Organizations should act as regional bureaux of the World Health Organization. [4*] Regional Committees should carry out the main work of the organization. They should be set up only by decision of the Conference. In solving the question of the location and composition of the executive staff of the committees, the opinion of the States concerned with the activities of each regional committee should be decisive. [1] Finances XIII There should be a two-thirds majority in the Health Conference regarding decisions involving important financial commitments. [2*] Financial considerations should not hamper public health work, which pays dividends even in money. [1*] Relations With Other Organizations XVII. 1. Relations with the United Nations The tie between the United Nations and the Health Organization should be evident in its name. [1*] The moral credit of the Health Organization's work should benefit the United Nations. [1*] The staff of the Health Organization should as far as practicable have the same statute, regulations, salary scales, etc., as that of the United Nations, to permit transfers and promotions between them. [1*] It should have the same loyalties and freedom from national influences. [1*] XVII. (26) Relations with specialized inter-governmental agencies There should be a single Health Organization, which should absorb the existing international health agencies. (Office international d'hygiène publique.) [2*] XIX. 1. Entry Into Force of the Constitution of the This entry should take place only after twenty-six ratifications of— or full adhesions to-the constituting convention from States Members of the United Nations are available. [2] Two other members held that, on the contrary, the entry into force should be expedited as much as possible, and that the Constitution of the Health Organization should be drafted in such a way as to make it possible for the United Nations Assembly in September to decide upon its entry into force without awaiting more ratifications. [2] This procedure was, however, considered impracticable in the present state of their national constitutional legislation by five members. [5] ANNEX 12 Participants in the International Health Conference Invited Nations ARGENTINA Dr. Alberto Zwanck, Professeur d'Hygiène à l'Université de Buenos Aires Legal Adviser Dr. Gabriel Galvez-Bunge, Directeur Général du Département de Législation Sanitaire au Ministère de la Santé Publique AUSTRALIA Right Hon. H. V. Evatt, Minister of State for External Affairs A. H. Tange, First Secretary, Australian Mission to the United Nations Sir Raphael Cilento, Director General of Health and Medical Services for the State of Queensland W. D. Forsyth, Department of External Affairs A. H. Body, Third Secretary, Australian Mission to the United Nations Dr. W. A. Wynes, Official Secretary, Australian High Commissioner's Office, Ottawa BELGIUM Professor Maurice de Laet, Secrétaire Général du Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Famille Dr. René Sand, Secrétaire Général honoraire et Conseilleur Technique du Ministère de la Santé publique et de la Famille Adviser Roland Lebeau, Counsellor of Legation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs BOLIVIA Dr. Luis V. Sotelo, Director of the Nutrition Department of the Public Health Service; Professor, School of Medicine, San Andreas University, La Paz BRAZIL Dr. Geraldo H. de Paula Souza, Director of the Faculty of Public Health at the University of São Paulo Dr. Alberto E. Carneiro, Health Officer of the State Health Department of Rio Grande do Sul 724741-47-10 135 Roberto de Oliveira Campos, Executive Observer to the Economic and Social Council Joao Augusto de Aranjo Castro, Deputy Consul of Brazil in New York BYELORUSSIAN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC Dr. Nicholai Timofeyovitch Evstafiev, Deputy Minister of Public Health Secretary M. Petrova CANADA The Hon. Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Health and Welfare Dr. G. B. Chisholm, Deputy Minister of National Health and Welfare Dr. A. Groulx, Director of the Health Department of the City of Montreal Dr. C. W. MacMillan, McGill University; President of the Canadian Public Health Association Dr. T. C. Routley, General Secretary of the Canadian Medical Society Ernest Cote, Secretary, Department of External Affairs CHILE Dr. Julio Bustos, Director General de Previsión Social de Chile Dr. Carlos Briones, Legal Adviser, Department of Social Welfare Dr. Alfredo Riquelme, Chief of Nutrition Division, Department of Public Health Adviser Dr. Marcos Charnes, Zone Inspector, Public Health Service CHINA Dr. James Kofei Shen, Deputy Director-General, National Health Administration, Nanking Dr. L. Chin Yuan, Director, Institute of Epidemiology, National Institute of Health, Nanking Dr. Szeming Sze, Senior Technical Expert, National Health Administration Advisers Dr. Shao-Hwa Tan Dr. Lan-sung Woo, Secretary-General, Chinese Red Cross Dr. Robert T. Huang Technical Expert Dr. Chang-yui Shu, Special Member, National Health Administration, Nanking Secretary-General Tswen-ling Tsui, First Secretary, Chinese Embassy, Washington, D.C. Deputy Secretary-General George Y. L. Wu, Consul, Chinese Consulate General, New York City Secretaries Allen Lau Mrs. Min-hsien Yang Kiang E. Irene McMullen |