RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

24 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
ment of public health laboratory services; to the
Health Department of Nicaragua, for the support
of a training center for public health laboratory
personnel; to the Health Department of the
city of Baltimore, for work in the communicable
diseases division of the city laboratory; to the
National Department of Health of Poland, for
its Division of Public Health Nursing.
Aid to local health departments was given in
Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, Austria,
British Columbia, Costa Rica, Hungary, India,
Java, Manitoba, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto
Rico, Spain, and Turkey.
Public health education was assisted through
emergency grants for maintenance to the State
Hygienic Institute, Budapest, Hungary, and the
School of Public Health at Zagreb, Yugoslavia;
by appropriations to the Central Medical School
for Native Medical Students, Suva, Fiji, for
enlarging the laboratory building; to the Rumanian
Health Service, for the development of
a health center at Bucharest in connection with
the Institute of Hygiene; to the School of Hygiene
at Athens, Greece, toward the establishment
of a model health center for the training of
personnel; and by the support of training stations
for public health personnel in Colombia
and Puerto Rico. Contributions were made
toward the maintenance of schools of nursing at
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