Annual report of the Mysore Department of Health.

  • Mysore (India : State). Department of Health.
Date:
[1954]
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Credit: Annual report of the Mysore Department of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MYSORE STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 1954. Health Administration. General.—Dr. T. Chandrasekharaiya, b.a., m.b.b.s., m.p.h., continued to be the Director of Public Health during the year. He was on tour for 126 days and visited 68 towns and 57 villages on inspection of general sanitation, vaccination, water supply, control of epidemics, malaria control programmes, selection of sites for village extension and of the work of the staff of the Health Units. During the year, he attended the meetings of the Bangalore and Mysore City Improvement Trust Boards Standing Health Committee meetings at Mandya, Public Health Board meeting held in May 1954, Industrial and Testing Laboratory and the various other meetings held in Bangalore, Mysore and Bhadravati, Shimoga and Lakkavalli in connection with the Lakkavalli Reservoir Project. He gave two radio talks on the following subjects at the All-India Radio, Mysore :— (1) Health and Sanitation. l2) B.C.G. Vaccination. He continued to hold the following offices, as in the previous years :— (1) Secretary to the Public Health Board. (2) One of the Directors of the Industrial and Testing Laboratory, Ltd. (3) Member of the Sugar Cess Fund Committee. (4) Member, City Improvement Trust Board, Bangalore. (5) Do Mysore. (6) Member, Visvesvaraya Canal Area Board. (7) Chairman, Health Standing Committee. The Director of Public Health accompanied the Minister for Public Health to attend the Second Meeting of the Central Council of Health held at Rajkot in February 1954* He also attended the Conference of the Health Secretaries held at New Delhi, during the third week of April, and the Advisory Committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research held in Baroda during November 1954. Dr, S. Seshagiri Rau, b sc., m.b.b.s., m.p.h., took charge of the office of the Deputy Director of Public Health on 7th August 1954 from Dr. A. S. Venkatachalam, who retired from service as Deputy Director of Public Health. He was also in additional charge of the Bureau of Epidemiology up to 15th October 1954, when Dr. E. Anantha Rao, b.sc., m.b.b.s., d.p.h., took charge of the Bureau of Epidemiology as its Superinten¬ dent. Dr. S- Seshagiri Rau, Deputy Director of Public Health was appointed Liaison Officer for Unicef Skim Milk and Drugs Distribution Scheme in the State*