DESCRIBES FUNCTION OF STATE HYGIENE INSTITUTE

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• Publication Date: June 20, 1950
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
Sociological - Public health
Weekly and daily newspapers
Dusseldorf; Katowice; Warsaw
26 Feb - 22 Mar 1950
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DESCRIBES FUNCTION OF STATE HYGIENE INSTITUTE
SUPPLIES POPULATION WITH VACCINES -- Slowo Polskie, No 7, 26 Feb 50
The Central Office of the PZH (State Institute of Hygiene) is located in
Warsaw, with branches in every wojewodztwo city. Prof Feliks Przesmycki, di-
rector of the PZH, stated that the PZH studies the foci and spread of conta-
gious diseases, tests water, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics, and inspects
food service. It also inspects the working conditions of individual indus-
tries and studies the conditions under which occupation diseases are con-
tracted. It studies methods of food preservation, and standards of nutri-
tion for workers, children, invalids, etc.
One of PZH's basic tasks is to supply the population with vaccines
and serums. PZH also supplies the wholesale and retail distributors with
antidiphtheria serum, antitetanus serum, and vaccine against rabies. Today
every person bitten by a mad dog or even a dog suspected of having rabies, is
inoculated free of charge. PZH has special farms in Sluzewo near Warsaw and
in Wola Slawinska where horses are reared for diphtheria and tetanus serum.
Heifers from which cowpox is taken for the manufacture of antismallpox vaccine,
are also reared on these farms.
The PZH tests all vaccines and serums manufactured. Standard serums come
from the International Bureau of Hygiene in Copenhagen.
HEALTH OFFICE GETS MORE SPACE -- Dziennik Zachodni, No 81, 22 Mar 50
The city administration of Czestochowa has assigned to the local branch
of the State Office of Hygiene four rooms on the ground floor of the build-
ing of the City Health Center, Wilson Street.
The activities of the State Office of Hygiene will be limited in the be-
ginning to testing foods.
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MEDICAL ACADEMY SETS UP 3 NEW FACULTIES -- Trybuna Ludu, No 62, 3 Mar 50
On 1 March 1950 three new faculties of general anatomy, chemistry, and
stomatology were inaugurated at the Szczecin Medical Academy.
The Faculty of General Chemistry has a large laboratory to accommodate
nearly 200 students. The Faculty of Stomatology, one of the best of its
kind in Poland, has a large experimental laboratory and a room for dental
technical work. The Faculty of Anatomy has modern installations in a newly
restored building.
TO STEP UP EXTRACTION OF HOG GLANDS -- Rzeczpospolita, No 70, 11 Mar 50
The Polish Pharmaceutical. Industry is much in need of the glands for
making valuable hormone preparations. Roman Sadowski, a worker in the Kra-
kow Branch of the Slaughterhouse By-products Center Bacutil, has pledged to
extract the pituitary glands from 80 out of every 100 hogs slaughtered. This
will be an increase of 33 percent, since until now pituitary glands were ex-
tracted from only 60 out of every 100 hogs slaughtered.
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CENTROSAN TO ALLOCATE ALL DRUGS -- Zycie Warszawy, No 70, 11 Mar 50
The eighth general convention of the Chief Pharmaceutical Board was
held in Zakopane. Among those present were T. Michejda, Minister of Health,
and representatives of the chief administrations of the trade unions, the
Health Service, the Chief Pharmaceutical Board, and the 14 regional boards.
In his discussion of drug allocation, Sniegucki, director of the de-
partment, announced that the Centrosan state wholesale organization will
take over the allocation and distribution of all drugs.
It was decided to improve the supply of rural and urban drugstores,
to open model drugstores in connection with producers' cooperatives, to ex-
pand the training courses, and to develop cooperation between druggists and
pharmaceutical bureaus and the political, sociological, and trade-union or-
ganizations.
LODZ SHORT 60 DOCTORS -- Ilustrowany Kurier Polski, No 73, 14 Mar 50
Lodz, which until very recently had many hundreds of doctors, lost such
a great number in the reallocation program that it is now about 60 doctors
short.
There is also a shortage of ambulances despite the seemingly large num-
ber of Social Insurance and Red Cross ambulances. In the next few weeks,
six new cars are expected, and many more are expected within the first 6
months.
These problems were discussed by the Lodz representatives to the health
conference at the Ministry of Health in Warsaw. Since many doctors were
greatly over"urdened, it was. decided to take steps to divide the work more
evenly between the existing doctors.
TO SET UP FIRST WHOOPING COUGH HOSPITAL -- Ilustrowany Kurier Polski, No 60,
1 Mar 50
The first whooping-cough hospital in Poland for workers' children will
be opened soon in Lodz, Swietlana Street, in the city's Radogoszcz district.
Children will remain in the hospital until they are fully cured.
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ANTIDIPHTHERIA VACCINATIONS -- Rzeczpospolita, No 69, 10 Mar 50
Antidiphtheria vaccinations in 1950 will be carried out in nurseries,
kindergartens and children's playgrounds. All children from 1-7 will be vac-
cinated.
From 15 April to 30 June, typhus inoculations will be given at all
Health Centers and large institutions and factories.
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