The governments of the following States were invited to send observers, but were not represented:

Afghanistan

Rumania

Yemen

The Allied Control Authorities for Germany, Japan and Korea were represented by observers.

The following international organizations were represented by observers:

Food and Agriculture Organization of The Rockefeller Foundation

the United Nations

International Labour Organization
League of Red Cross Societies

Office International d'Hygiène publique
Pan American Sanitary Bureau
Provisional International Civil Aviation
Organization

United Nations Educational, Scientific

and Cultural Organization

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

World Federation of Trade Unions

The Conference had before it and used as the basis of discussion Proposals for the Constitution of the World Health Organization and the Resolutions adopted by the Technical Preparatory Committee of Experts. The Committee was established in accordance with the resolution of the Economic and Social Council, dated 15 February 1946. A number of proposals put forward by governments and various organizations was also before the Conference.

As a result of the deliberations of the Conference as recorded in the minutes and reports of the respective committees and sub-committees and of the plenary sessions, the following instruments were drawn up and separately signed:

Constitution of the World Health Organization.

Arrangement for the Establishment of an Interim Commission of the World Health Organization.

Protocol Concerning the Office International d'Hygiène publique.

The Conference adopted the following resolution:

"The Conference notes with gratification the steps already taken by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to provide temporary machinery for carrying on the remaining activities of the League of Nations Health Organization, as recommended in Resolution V of the Technical Preparatory Committee on 5 April 1946, and requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in order to avoid duplication of functions, to make the necessary arrangements for transferring to the Interim Commission of the World Health Organization as soon as possible such functions of the League of Nations Health Organization as have been assumed by the United Nations.”

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned delegates sign this Final Act. DONE in the City of New York this twenty-second day of July 1946 in a single copy in the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish languages, each text being equally authentic. The original texts shall be deposited in the archives of the United Nations. The SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations will send certified copies to each of the governments represented at the Conference.

FOR ARGENTINA:

Alberto Zwanck

FOR AUSTRALIA:

A. H. Tange

FOR THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM:

Dr. M. de Laet.

FOR BOLIVIA:

Luis V. Sotelo.

FOR BRAZIL:

Geraldo de Paula Souza

FOR BYELORUSSIAN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC:

N. Evstafiev

FOR CANADA:

Brooke Claxton

Brock Chisholm

FOR CHILE:

Julio Bustos

FOR CHINA:

Shen, J. K.

L. Chin Yuan
Szeming Sze.

FOR COLOMBIA:

Carlos Uribe Aguirre.

FOR COSTA RICA:

Jaime Benavides

FOR CUBA:

Dr Pedro Nogueira

Victor Santamarina

FOR CZECHOSLOVAKIA :

Dr Josef Cančik

FOR DENMARK:

J. Oerskov.

FOR THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:

Dr. L. F. Thomen

FOR ECUADOR:

R. Nevarez Vásquez

FOR EGYPT:

Dr. A. T. Choucha

Taha Elsayed Nasr

Royal Counsellor

M. S. Abaza

FOR ETHIOPIA:

G. Tessema.

FOR EL SALVADOR:

Arístides Moll

FOR FRANCE:

J. Parisot

FOR GREECE:

Dr Phokion Kopanaris

FOR GUATEMALA:

G. Morán

J A. Muñoz

FOR HAITI:

Rulx León

FOR HONDURAS:

Juan Manuel Fiallos

FOR IRAN:

Ghasseme Ghani M.D.

H. Hafezi

FOR IRAQ:

S. Al-Zahawi

Dr. Ihsan Dogramaji

FOR LEBANON:

Georges Hakim

Dr A Makhlouf

FOR LIBERIA:

Joseph Nagbe Togba, M.D.

John B. West, M.D.

FOR THE GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG: Dr. M. de Laet.

FOR MEXICO:

Mondragón.

FOR THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS:

C. van den Berg

C. Banning

W. A. Timmerman

FOR NEW ZEALAND:

TR Ritchie.

FOR NICARAGUA:

Dr A Sevilla-Sacasa

FOR THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY:

Hans Th. Sandberg.

FOR PANAMA:

J. J. Vallarino.

FOR PARAGUAY:

Angel R. Ginés

FOR PERU:

Carlos Enrique Paz Soldán

Alb. Toranzo.

FOR THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES:

H Lara

Walfrido de Leon

FOR POLAND:

Edward Grzegorzewski.

FOR SAUDI ARABIA:

Dr Medhat Cheikh-Al-Ardh.

Dr Yahia Nasri

FOR SYRIA:

Dr. C. Trefi

FOR TURKEY:

Z. Barker

FOR THE UKRAINIAN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC:
I. Medved

I. I. Kaltchenko

FOR THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS :

[Subject to ratification by the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR]1

F. G. Krotkov

FOR THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA:

H. S. Gear.

FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND: Melville D. Mackenzie

G. E. Yates

FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

Thomas Parran

Martha M. Eliot.

Frank G Boudreau

FOR URUGUAY:

José A. Mora

R Rivero

Carlos M. Barberousse

FOR VENEZUELA:

ad referendum

A Arreaza Guzmán

FOR YUGOSLAVIA:

Dr A. Stampar

FOR AFGHANISTAN:

FOR ALBANIA:

T. Jakova

FOR AUSTRIA:

Dr Marius Kaiser

'This and similar bracketed phrases are translations.