UKTTfcD NATiONS NATIONS UNIES
W O R L D H E A L T H О P. Q A N i I A T I O N
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTÉ
FOURTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY A4/Prog/24
23 May 1951 COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMME
ORIGINAL: FRENCH
CONTROL OF VENEREAL DISEASE AMONG THE RHINE BOATMEN
Draft Resolution proposed by the Delegation of the Netherlands
The Committee on Programme recommends to the Fourth World Health Assembly the adoption of a resolution along the following lines:
The Fourth World Health Assembly
Considering that the programme proposed for 1952 contains provision for the constitution of an International Anti-Venereal-Disease Commission of the Rhine for the organization of the control of venereal diseases atr.org boatmen and members of their families on the Rhine"1";
Considering that the World Health Organization should be kept continually infomed with regard to the venereal disease morbidity among such boatmen and the port cities in which infections have been contracted;
REQUESTS the Director-General to ask the Commission to include in
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its Annual Report to the Executive Board the number of new cases reported of venereal disease among the boatmen, the members of their families and crews, classified according to the port in which the infection was contracted.
1 Off - Rec.World Hlth.Org. 31, 387
Off,Rec.World Hlth.Org. 32, EB7.R24 (6) 8.
