TOWARDS A HEALTHIER WORLD
GIFT TO LEAGUE OF NATIONS The Hygiene Committee of the League of Nations has decided to accept an offer of financial help from the Rockefeller Foundation. The foundation has offered the committee a sum of 60,000 dollars (£12,000 at par) a year for three years to allow of an interchange of staff in the public health services of various countries, and a sum of 30,000 dollars a year for five years for the development of an international office for distributing information as to epidemics. The plan will be put into action immediately after the necessary documents are signed, and the interchange o fstaff under the first head will begin this month. The officials of the various nations will follow a fortnight’s course at Brussels, and will then spend a period of two months’ ser-, vice in the health departments of other countries.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 11 October 1922, Page 5
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