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Problems of Devastated Areas, but agreed to postpone consideration of this proposal until its next session.

At its final meeting on July 23, on the nomination of Dr. Krotkov (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), the Commission elected Dr. Stampar as its permanent Chairman. The Interim Commission decided that its next meeting would be held in Geneva, Switzerland, during the first part of November 1946.

The Committee on Administration and Finance met July 24. Dr. Van den Berg (Netherlands) was elected Chairman. The Committee approved a budget, submitted by the Executive Secretary, for the remainder of 1946 and for 1947, within the amounts proposed by the Commission; authorized the Executive Secretary to negotiate with the United Nations to secure the funds necessary to meet this budget; adopted the staff, financial, and travel regulations of the United Nations as regulations to govern the Executive Secretary in the conduct of his work; established the salary of the Executive Secretary at the salary level of an Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, authorizing the Chairman of the Interim Commission to sign a contract with the Executive Secretary; approved five names submitted by the Executive Secretary for employment at a salary of $5,000 or more; and determined that its next meeting should be held in conjunction with the next meeting of the Interim Commission.

Annexes

ANNEX I

Final Act

The International Health Conference, for the establishment of an international health organization, was convened by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations by the following resolution of 15 February 1946:

"The Economic and Social Council, taking note of the declaration proposed jointly by the delegations of Brazil and China at San Francisco, which was unanimously approved, regarding an International Health Conference, and recognizing the urgent need for international action in the field of public health,

1. decides to call an international conference to consider the scope of, and the appropriate machinery for, international action in the field of public health and proposals for the establishment of a single international health organization of the United Nations; 2. urges the Members of the United Nations to send as representatives to this conference experts in public health;

3. establishes a Technical Preparatory Committee to prepare a draft annotated agenda and proposals for the consideration of the Conference, and appoints the following experts or their alternates to constitute the Committee:

1. Dr. Gregorio Bermann (Argentina)

2. Dr. René Sand (Belgium)

3. Dr. Geraldo H. de Paula Souza (Brazil)
4. Major-General G. B. Chisholm (Canada)
5. Dr. P. Z. King (China)

(alternate: Dr. Szeming Sze)

6. Dr. Josef Cančik (Czechoslovakia)
7. Dr. Aly Tewfik Shousha Pasha (Egypt)
8. Dr. A. Cavaillon (France)

(alternate: Dr. Leclainche)

9. Dr. Kopanaris (Greece)

10. Major C. Mani (India)

(alternate: Dr. Chuni Lal Katial)

11. Dr. Manuel Martinez Báez (Mexico)

12. Dr. Karl Evang (Norway)

[Certain typographical errors in the original have been corrected.-EDITOR.]

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13. Dr. Martin Kacprzak (Poland)

14. Sir Wilson Jameson (United Kingdom)

(alternate: Dr. Melville Mackenzie)

15. Surgeon-General Thomas Parran (United States of America)

(alternate: Dr. James A. Doull)

16. Dr. Andrija Stampar (Yugoslavia)

and, in a consultative capacity, representatives of:

The Pan-American Sanitary Bureau,

L'Office International d'Hygiène publique,

The League of Nations Health Organization, and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; 4. directs the Technical Preparatory Committee to meet in Paris not later than 15 March 1946, and to submit its report, including the draft annotated agenda and proposals, to the Members of the United Nations and to the Council not later than 1 May 1946; 5. decides that any observations it may make at its second session on the report of the Technical Preparatory Committee will be communicated to the proposed International Conference; 6. instructs the Secretary-General to call the Conference not later than 20 June 1946, and, in consultation with the President of the Council, to select the place of meeting."

A Declaration for the calling of an International Health Conference was unanimously approved at the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco.

The International Health Conference met in the City of New York from 19 June to 22 July 1946.

The governments of the following States were represented at the Conference by delegates:

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On July 4, 1946, the Philippine Commonwealth gained its independence and became the Republic of the Philippines.

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