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on by the Health Organization of the League of Nations, 

 a spirit of international cooperation is being created in 

 this individual and personal way; the knowledge of 

 health procedures in one country is being put at the 

 disposal of other nations. 



The direct cooperation of governments is having an 

 important bearing upon the growth of international 

 hygiene. The leading governments furnish health 

 officers in the ports of other countries so that valuable 

 means of contact and cooperation are established. 

 What amounts to the appointment of attaches of 

 hygiene is being brought about so that it is possible to 

 look forward to a time in the early future when every 

 country will have its sanitary representatives in other 

 lands. Such a system cannot fail to increase in many 

 ways the effectiveness of organization and activity in 

 behalf of world health. 



Non-governmental health agencies are playing a 

 significant part in the new hygienic movement. The 

 international Red Cross has for many years concerned 

 itself with the health conditions of prisoners of war. 

 With the organization of the League of Red Cross 

 Societies in 1919, a new international voluntary agency 

 was set up. A programme of this society includes as 

 an important feature the promotion of public health 

 measures in the different countries where the Red 

 Cross Society has been established. The Rockefeller 

 Foundation, through its subsidiaries, the International 

 Health Board, the China Medical Board, and the Divi- 

 sion of Medical Education, is carrying on work which, 

 during recent years, has included items of cooperation 



