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109. Whatever the form of the area administration, the authority administering the medical care service should keep in constant touch with the beneficiaries in the area through advisory bodies, elected by representative organizations of the different sections of the population, in the manner provided for in paragraph 95. 110. Where the" social insurance medical care service covers only a section of the population, administration of that service may appropriately be entrusted to a representative executive body responsible to the government, and comprising representatives of the beneficiaries, of the medical and allied professions participating in the service and of the employers. Administration of Health Units 111. Health units owned and operated by the medical care service, such as medical or health centres or hospitals, should be administered under democratic control with adequate provisions for the participation of the medical profession, or wholly or predominantly by doctors elected by, or appointed after consultation of, the members of the medical and allied professions participating in the medical care service, in co-operation with all the doctors working at the unit. Right of Appeal 112. Beneficiaries or members of the medical or allied professions who have submitted complaints to the arbitration body referred to in paragraph 63 should have a right of appeal from the decisions of such body to an independent tribunal. 113. Members of the medical and allied professions against whom disciplinary measures have been taken by the supervisory body referred to in paragraph 64 should have a right of appeal from the decisions of such body to an independent tribunal. 114. Where the supervisory body referred to in paragraph 64 takes no disciplinary action on a matter referred to it by the arbitration body, in accordance with paragraph 65, the interested parties should have a right of appeal to an independent tribunal. The foregoing is the authentic text of the Recommendation duly adopted by the General Conference of the International Labour Organization during its Twenty-sixth Session which was held at Philadelphia and declared closed the 12th day of May, 1944. In faith whereof we have appended our signatures, this seventeenth day of May 1944. The President of the Conference. J W. Nash. The Acting Director of the International Labour Office. Edward J. Phelan. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE Recommendation [No. 70] concerning Minimum Standards op Social Policy in Dependent Territories The General Conference of the International Labour OrganizationHaving been convened at Philadelphia by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Twenty-sixth Session on 20 April 1944, and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to minimum standards of social policy in dependent territories, which is the fifth item on the agenda of the Session, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation, adopts, this twelfth day of May of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Social Policy in Dependent Territories Recommendation, 1944 : Whereas the economic advancement and social progress of the peoples of dependent territories have become increasingly a matter of close and urgent concern to the States responsible for their administration; and _ . Whereas the International Labour Organization has from its inception endeavoured to assist the efforts towards this end of governments, employers and workers ; and Whereas the Atlantic Charter has expressed the desire of the signatories " to bring about the fullest collaboration between all nations in the economic field with the object of securing, for all, improved labour standards, economic advancement and social security " ; and Whereas the Conference of the International Labour Organization, by a Resolution adopted on 5 November 1941, endorsed the principles of the Atlantic Charter and pledged the full co-operation of the International Labour Organization in their implementation ; and Whereas the International Labour Organization has from time to time adopted Conventions and Recommendations dealing with special aspects of the conditions of life and labour in dependent territories and has promoted the application to such territories, in accordance with Article 35 of the Constitution of the Organization, of Conventions and Recommendations of general application ; and Whereas the progress of the well-being and development of dependent peoples is influenced by the economic relations between the dependent territories and the rest of the world, as well as by measures taken within the dependent territories *, and Whereas it is desirable to state the fundamental principles of social policy in dependent territories, and to provide for the extension of the application to such territories of. accepted international minimum standards and for the improvement of these standards, in order to promote the attainment of the aforesaid objects ;

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