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Summary Report of the Inaugural Meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Health held in Simla on 22nd and 23rd June 1937

1937

The field of Public Health is the entire field in which the Governments Central Provincial or Local can by any means promote the health of the individual citizen by amelioration of the general environment in which he or she lives including of course the nutritional environment and embracing as well important areas in the field of education including the education of adults in all matters conc [...] In the first place he reminded the Board that the memorandum dealt with only one aspect of the general campaign for the promotion of the health of the people. [...] The principal means for the spread of knowledge in the science and art of dietetics were first the education of the community in the choice of food ; and secondly the safeguarding of food deficiency in composition from adulteration and from contamination. [...] After the Chairman had offered his thanks to the Hon'ble Ministers and their advisers and the non-official representatives of the Central Legilatures for their valuable assistance during the two days of the meeting the Hon'ble Minister for Bombay moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman on behalf of all members of the Committee. [...] (4) The Board while taking note of the position that the control of the production distribution and sale of quinine is now a purely Provincial function. considers that in the interests of India as a whole the question of the adviability of the resumption of such control by the Central Government should be seriously considered.
technology medicine science
Pages
65
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143952
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
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His Excellency the Viceroy’s Speech at the Inaugural Meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Health Held on Tuesday the 22nd June 1937
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The Hon’ble Kunwar Sir Jagdish Prasad Member in Charge of the Department of Education Health and Lands in Requesting his Excellency the Viceroy to Inaugurate the Meeting Delivered the Following Speech
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Central Advisory Board of Health
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Resolutions
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Appendices
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