WORLD HEALTH

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 July 1946, Page 7

WORLD HEALTH

PLAN FOR CO-ORDINATION

NEW YORK, July 18.

The World Health Assembly, after deliberating for a month, has completed writing a constitution for a world health organisation under the auspices of the United Nations. The assembly decided that 67 nations attending the conference can become members by accepting the constitution.

The assembly also adopted a provision opening membership to all nations, including former enemies of the United Nations. New members such as Spain, whose eligibility the Russian delegate unsuccessfully contested, will be admitted by a simple majority .decision of members; The constitution will be signed on July 22 and must be ratified by 26 nations. Dr. Thomas Parran, Surgeon-Gen-eral of the United States, who presided, told an interviewer that the real work would not begin until the first meeting of the new organisation, which would establish an international exchange of medical in- , formation and arrange for world' agreements to control disease. He expressed the opinion that tuberculosis and malaria were the first diseases to tackle on a world scale. ■’ Dr. L. Williams, an American expert on malaria, said he was confident that D.D.T. properly used would ultimately, stamp out malaria throughout the world, even in India, where it was estimated that 350,I 00,000 were afflicted.