Inspector-General's report / South Pacific Health Service.

  • South Pacific Health Service.
Date:
[1963]
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    8. Nutrition and Home Science Propaganda—The Nutrition Section organized an exhibition on the “ Food Uses of the Coconut ” at the Agricultural Show. A similar kind of display was given at a rice field day. A series of simple radio talks were prepared for the South Pacific Health Service territories. These were first broadcast in Fiji and scripts were then sent to other territories. 9. Teaching Aids—A book on infant feeding for Tongan mothers was published and despatched to Tonga. The Fijian infant feeding book was reprinted. 10. Posters on the daily dietary pattern were revised and printed. A hand book on teaching nutrition from the poster was prepared and printed. 11. The South Pacific Cookery Book was prepared for reprinting. It is intended to revise this book in 1964-1965. 12. A Manual of Nutrition for teachers and community workers was prepared. 13. A display showing various aspects of the South Pacific Health Service Nutrition work was prepared and sent to the World Health Organization Headquarters, Manila, for use in Public Health and Nutrition Seminars. RESEARCH 14. Food analysis tables for use in the South Pacific Health Service territories were prepared. These will be printed in 1964 and despatched to all territories. The tables show the food value of most of the foods commonly used in this area of the Pacific. A nutrition survey was carried out at Naduri Village, Sigatoka. This survey was undertaken with the view of ascertaining changes in nutrition practices that may have occurred since the initial South Pacific Health Service survey at this village in 1953. THE TRAINING OF ASSISTANT DIETITIANS 15. Throughout the period lectures were given to two assistant dietitian students. Two students sat for the final examination. One Cook Islands student passed the examination and one Fijian student obtained a partial pass. The Cook Islands student returned to Rarotonga to assist in the hospital. 16. An assistant dietitian was appointed to the senior post at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital. The food served at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital and Lautoka Hospital are now supervised by assistant dietitians. 17. It is hoped that eventually it will be possible to train assistant dietitians to undertake the supervision of hospital food services in all the South Pacific Health Service territories. APPENDIX V AGREEMENT FOR THE CONTINUED OPERATION OF A SOUTH PACIFIC HEALTH SERVICE Whereas, on the 7th day of September, 1946 the Government of Fiji, the Western Pacific High Commission, acting for and on behalf of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony and the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, and the Government of New Zealand, acting in respect of New Zealand’s Island Territories including Western Samoa, desiring to combine for the more effective protection of the health of the people in the Territories under their administration, entered into an Agreement for the establishment of a South Pacific Health Service: And whereas on the 11th day of June, 1951 the Government of Fiji, the Western Pacific High Commission and the Government of New Zealand entered into a further Agreement for the continued operation of the South Pacific Health Service replacing the Agreement of 7th September, 1946: And whereas the said Agreement of the 11th day of June, 1951 provided that it should con¬ tinue in force until the 31st day of December, 1954: And whereas with the concurrence of the parties thereto, the said Agreement of the 11th day of June, 1951 has nevertheless continued to have full effect up to the date of the entry into force of the present Agreement: And whereas the said Agreement of the 11th day of June, 1951 applied to the Colony of Fiji, to the Kingdom of Tonga and to the several Western Pacific and New Zealand Territories for and on behalf of, or in respect of which it was signed: And whereas it is desired to make provision for the continued operation of the South Pacific Health Service in accordance with the provisions contained in the present Agreement: And whereas it is desired that the Government of Tonga and the Government of Western Samoa should be joined as parties to the present Agreement: And whereas the Government of Fiji, the Western Pacific High Commission and the Govern¬ ment of Tonga are authorized to conclude the present Agreement by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: And whereas the Government of Western Samoa is authorized to conclude the present Agreement by the Government of New Zealand: Now therefore the Government of Fiji, the Western Pacific High Commission, the Govern¬ ment of New Zealand, the Government of Tonga, and the Government of Western Samoa (herein¬ after referred to as “ the Participating Administrations ”) agree as follows:— 1. The South Pacific Health Service shall extend and apply to the Territories named in the Appendix hereto, and may, by agreement between the Participating Administrations, be extended and applied to other Pacific Island Territories.