RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH DIVISION 55
officials but also of local health officers for whose
education it was originally designed. It is felt
that the courses offered at the school thus far
have been of great value in improving hygienic
conditions in Norway, It has been especially
pointed out by the public health officers in their
annual reports that they have observed an increased
interest in public health matters and
improvement of hygienic conditions in those
districts where summer students of the school
have worked.
Since 1923 the International Health Division
has maintained an active interest in the Warsaw
School of Hygiene in Poland,firstby contributing
toward its construction and equipment,
then by lending the services of a professor and by
training men
through fellowships for teaching
positions in the school. Emergency aid to enable
the institute to continue its work was
later
granted. Assistance for these purposes terminated
March 31, 1935.
Continued aid to the Zagreb School of Public
Health, Yugoslavia, was designated in 1935 as
an emergency grant for a period ending December
31, 1936. Without some outside aid the
school was faced either with a reduction of essential
services or with delay in the plans for
production of neosalvarsan. Interest in this grant
extends beyond Yugoslavia, for the school's
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