RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

CHINA PROGRAM 333
step in realizing a policy of state medicine as the
only practical solution to the problem of providing
medical protection for an economically
unadvanced population* The consequent rapid
development of state medical and public health
work and the great demand for personnel meant
that instruction had to be given by staff
members
already burdened by administrative routine
as well as teaching, with the result that additional
personnel became necessary. It was aJso
found desirable to extend and intensify the various
courses in public health work, in order to fulfill
the responsibility of supplying adequately
trained personnel to local health organizations.
In 1935, therefore, the Foundation appropriated
LC$87,500 to the National Health Administration
of China toward the expenses of training"
health personnel at this strategic center during
the period July 1, 1935, to June 30, 1936.
At the present time there is no educational
institution in China able to give instruction to
meet the demand for trained pub.Mc Health personnel
which has grown up in the past seven
years since the establishment of the National
Health Administration. The administration has
organized its own
preliminary courses, which
were at first inadequate, owing to insufficient
financial resources and to the attempt to make
regular staff members carry the heavy load of
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