first World Health Assembly. Particular importance is attached to United States approval since there is reason to believe that several other states will approve the constitution within a short time after the United States has given its approval.

The participation of the United States in this Organization will be another manifestation of the determination of this Government, which has been emphasized by the President and Congress, to give continuing full support to the United Nations.

G. C. MARSHALL, (Enclosure: A certified copy of the final acts of the International Health Conference.)

FINAL ACT

The International Health Conference, for the establishment of an international health organization, was convened by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations by the following resolution of 15 February 1946:

"The Economic and Social Council, taking note of the declaration proposed jointly by the delegations of Brazil and China at San Francisco, which was unanimously approved, regarding an International Health Conference, and recognizing the urgent need for international action in the field of public health,

1. decides to call an international conference to consider the scope of, and the appropriate machinery for, international action in the field of public health and proposals for the establishment of a single international health organization of the United Nations;

2. urges the Members of the United Nations to send as representatives to this conference experts in public health;

3. establishes a Technical Preparatory Committee to prepare a draft annotated agenda and proposal for the consideration of the Conference, and appoints the following experts or their alternates to constitute the Committee:

1. Dr. Gregorio Bermann (Argentina)

2. Dr. René Sand (Belgium)

3. Dr. Geraldo H. de Paula Souza (Brazil)
4. Major-General G. B. Chrisholm (Canada)
5. Dr. P. Z. Kirg (China)

(alternate: Dr. Szeming Sze)

6. Dr. Joseph Cančik (Czechoslovakia)
7. Dr. Aly Tewfik Shousha Pasha (Egypt)
8. Dr. A. Cavaillon (France)

(alternate: Dr. Leclainche)

9. Dr. Kopanaris (Greece)

10. Major C. Mani (India)

(alternate: Dr. Chuni Lal Katial)

11. Dr. Manuel Martinez Báez (Mexico)

12. Dr. Karl Evang (Norway)

13. Dr. Martin Kacprzak (Poland)

14. Sir Wilson Jameson (United Kingdom)

(alternate: Dr. Melville Mackenzie)

15. Surgeon-General Thomas Parran (United States of America)
(alternate: Dr. James A. Doull)

16. Dr. Andrija Stampar (Yugoslavia)

and, in a consultative capacity, representatives of:

The Pan-American Sanitary Bureau,

L'Office International d'Hygiène publique,

The League of Nations Health Organization, and the

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration;

4. directs the Technical Preparatory Committee to meet in Paris not later than 15 March 1946, and to submit its report, including the draft annotated agenda and proposals, to the Members of the United Nations and to the Council not later than 1 May 1946;

5. decides that any observations it may make at its second session on the report of the Technical Preparatory Committee will be communicated to the proposed International Conference;

NOTE. [Certain typographical errors in the original have been corrected.-EDITOR.]

6. instructs the Secretary-General to call the Conference not later than 20 June 1946, and, in consultation with the President of the Council, to select the place of the meeting."

A Declaration for the calling of an International Health Conference was unanimously approved at the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco.

The International Health Conference met in the City of New York from 19 June to 22 July 1946.

The governments of the following States were represented at the Conference by delegates:

The governments of the following States were represented by observers:

The governments of the following States were invited to send observers, but were not represented:

Afghanistan

Rumania

Yemen

The Allied Control Authorities for Germany, Japan and Korea were represented by observers.

The following international organizations were represented by observers. Food and Agriculture Organization of The Rockefeller Foundation

the United Nations

International Labour Organization
League of Red Cross Societies

Office International d'Hygiène publique
Pan American Sanitary Bureau
Provisional International Civil Aviation
Organization

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

World Federation of Trade Unions

The Conference had before it and used as the basis of discussion Proposals for the Constitution of the World Health Organization and the Resolutions adopted by the Technical Preparatory Committee of Experts. The Committee was established in accordance with the resolution of the Economic and Social Council, dated 15 February 1946. A number of proposals put forward by governments and various organizations was also before the Conference.

As a result of the deliberations of the Conference as recorded in the minutes and reports of the respective committees and sub-committees and of the plenary sessions, the following instruments were drawn up and separately signed:

1 On July 4, 1946, the Philippine Commonwealth gained its independence and became the Republic of the Philippines.

Constitution of the World Health Organization.

Arrangement for the Establishment of an Interim Commission of the World Health Organization.

Protocol Concerning the Office International d'Hygiène publique. The Conference adopted the following resolution:

"The Conference notes with gratification the steps already taken by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to provide temporary machinery for carrying on the remaining activities of the League of Nations Health Organization, as recommended in Resolution V of the Technical Preparatory Committee on 5 April 1946, and requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in order to avoid duplication of functions, to make the necessary arrangements for transferring to the Interim Commission of the World Health Organization as soon as possible such functions of the League of Nations Health Organization as have been assumed by the United Nations."

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned delegates sign this Final Act.

DONE in the City of New York this twenty-second day of July 1946 in a single copy in the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish languages, each text being equally authentic. The original texts shall be deposited in the archives of the United Nations. The Secretary-General of the United Nations will send certified copies to each of the governments represented at the Conference.

For Argentina:

ALBERT ZWANCK

For Australia:

A. H. TANGE

For the Kingdom of Belgium:

Dr. M. DE LAET

For Bolivia:

LUIS V. SOTELO

For Brazil:

GERALDO DE PAULA Souza

For Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic:

N. EVSTAFIEV

For Canada:

BROOKE CLAXTON

BROCK CHISHOLM

For Chile:

JULIO BUSTOS

For China:

SHEN, J. K.

L. CHIN YUAN

SZEMING SZE.

For Colombia:

CARLOS URIBE AGUIRRE.

For Costa Rica:

JAIME BENAVIDES

For Cuba:

Dr. PEDRO NOGUEIRA

VICTOR SANTAMARINA

For Czechoslovakia:

Dr. JOSEF CANČIK

For Denmark:

J. OERSKOV

For the Dominican Republic:

Dr. L. F. THOMEN

For Ecuador :

R. NEVAREZ VÁSQUEZ

For Egypt:

Dr. A. T. CHOUCHA
TAHA ELSAYED NASR
Royal Counsellor

M. S. ABAZA

For Ethiopia:

G. TESSEMA.

For El Salvador:

ARISTIDES MOLL

For France:

J. PARISOT

For Greece:

Dr. PHOKION KOPANARIS

For Guatemala:

G. MORÁN

J. A. MUÑOZ

For Haiti:

RULX LEÓN

For Honduras:

JUAN MANUEL FIALLOS

For India:

C. K. LAKSHMANAN

Lt. Col. I.M.S.

C. MANI

Major/I.M.S.

For Iran:

GHASSEME GHANI M.D.

H. HAFEZI

For Iraq:

S. AL-ZAHAWI

Dr. IHSAN DOGRAMAJI

For Lebanon:

GEORGES HAKIM

Dr A MAKHLOUF

For Liberia :

JOSEPH NAGBE TOGBA, M.D.

JOHN B. WEST, M.D.

For the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg:

Dr. M. DE LAET.

For Mexico:

MONDRAGÓN.

For the Kingdom of the Netherlands:

C. VAN DEN BERG

C. BANNING

W. A. TIMMERMAN

For New Zealand:

TR RITCHIE.

For Nicaragua:

Dr A SEVILLA-SACASA

For the Kingdom of Norway:

HANS TH. SANDBERG.

For Panama :

J. J. VALLARINO.

For Paraguay:

ANGEL R. GINÉS

For Peru:

CARLOS ENRIQUE PAZ SOLDÁN

ALB. TORANZO.

For the Republic of the Philippines:

H LARA

WALFRIDO DE LEON

For Poland:

EDWARD GRZEGORZEWSKI.

For Saudi Arabia :

Dr MEDHAT CHEIKH-AL-ARDH.

Dr YAHIA NASRI

For Syria:

Dr. C. TREFI

For Turkey:

Z. BARKER

For the Ukrainian Soviet Solialist Republic:

I. MI DVED

I. I. KALTCHENKO

For the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:

[Subject to ratification by the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR]

F. G. KROTKOV

For the Union of South Agrica:

H. S. GEAR.

For the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland:
MELVILLE D. MACKENZIE

G. E. YATES

For the United States of America :

THOMAS PARRAN

MARTHA M. ELIOT.

FRANK G BOUDREAU

For Uruguay:

José A. MORA

R RIVEL.O

CARLOS M. BARBEROUSSE

For Venezuela:

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A ARREAZA GUZMÁN

For Yugoslavia:

Dr A. STAMPAR

For Afghanistan:

For Albania:

T. JAKAVA

For Austria:

Dr MARIUS KAISER

For Bulgaria:

Dr. D. P. ORAHOVATZ.

For Eire:

JOHN D. MACCORMACK.

For Finland:

OSMO TURPEINEN.

For Hungary:

For Iceland:

For Italy:

GIOVANNI ALBERTO CANAPERIA.

For Portugal:

FRANCISCO C. CAMBOURNAC

For Rumania:

For Siam:

BUNLIANG TAMTHAI.

For Sweden:

For Switzerland:

DR J EUGSTER..

A. SAUTER.

For Transjordan:

DR. D. P. TUTUNJI.

For Yemen:

This and similar bracketed phrases are translations.