[Distributed to the Council and Official No. : C. 190. M. 90. 1930, III. the Members of the League.] Geneva, May 1930. LEAGUE OF NATIONS HEALTH COMMITTEE MINUTES O F T H E FIFTEENTH SESSION Held at Geneva from March 5th to 8th, 1930. Sertea o! Leag ations Publications T~: HEALTH 1930. III. 5. — 3 — CONTENTS Page List of Me m b e r s................................................................................................................................... 5 First Meeting, March 5th, 1930, at 4.30 p.m. : 437. Opening of the Session ........................................................................................... 7 438. Adoption of the Agenda of the Session................................................................... 7 439. Absence of Dr. J. Heng Liu from the Session........................................................ 7 440. Collaboration between the League of Nations and the Chinese Government as regards Health Matters : Statement by the Medical Director regarding the Mission to China................................................................................................... 7 441. Examination of the Chinese Government's Proposals for the Organisation of a National Quarantine Service : Appointment of a Sub-Commission................ 14 Second Meeting, March 6th, 1930, at 10 a.m. : 442. Collaboration between the League of Nations and the Chinese Government as regards Health Matters : General Discussion....................................................... 15 Third Meeting, March 7th, 1930, at 10.30 a.m. : 443. Collaboration between the Health Organisation and the Bulgarian Government in the Campaign against Syphilis in Bulgaria : Adoption of a Resolution 22 444. Collaboration between the League of Nations and the Chinese Government as regards Health Matters : Adoption of a Resolution........................................... 23 445. Examination of the Chinese Government’s Proposals for the Organisation of a National Quarantine Service : Adoption of a Resolution............................... 25 446. Opium : Application of Articles 8 and 10 of the International Opium Conven­ tion of 1925 : Opinions requested by the Social Section and the Permanent Central Opium Board : Collaboration of the Health Organisation with the Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs 25 447. Establishment of a Permanent Secretariat for the Unification of Pharmacopoeias 26 Fourth Meeting, March 7th, 1930, at 3.30 p.m. : 448. Establishment of a Permanent Secretariat for the Unification of Pharmacopoeias (Continuation)............................................................................................................... 29 F ifth Meeting, March 8th, 1930, at 9.30 a.m. : 449. Message of Condolence to the French Government on the Occasion of the Disaster in South-West F ra n c e ............................................................................................... 31 450. Note by the Medical Director on the Work of the Health Organisation since the Last Session of the Committee............................................................................... 32 451. Work of the Conference for the Prevention of Blindness (September 1929) and of the International Anti-Trachoma L e a g u e ........................................................... 34 452. Work of the Second Conference on the Health and Welfare of the Merchant Marine (October 1929) 35 453. Question of the Collaboration of the Health Organisation with the International Dental Federation...................................................................................................... 37 454. Invitations received by the Health Committee to be represented at Various Congresses...................................................................................................................... 37 455. Opium : Application of Articles 8 and 10 of the Opium Convention of 1925 : Adoption of Resolutions........................................................................................... 39 456. Appointment of a Permanent Secretariat for the Unification of Pharmacopoeias : Adoption of a Resolution........................................................................................... 39 457. Budget Estimates for 1931........................................................................................ 39 458. Close of the Session.................................................................................................... 41 S . d. N, 1,160 (F.) 1.055 (A.) 5/30. Imp. du J. de G. — 4 — LIST OF ANNEXES Page 1. Agenda of the Fifteenth Session of the Health Committee................................................... 42 2. Report of the Opium Commission on the Application of Articles 8 and 10 of the Geneva Convention and on the Requests for Technical Opinion submitted by the Social Section and the Permanent Central Opium B o a rd .................................................................................... 42 3. Application of Article 8 of the International Opium Convention, signed at Geneva on February 19th, 1925. Report from the Office international d’Hygiène publique (document C.H.843).............................................................................................."................................................. 44 4. Application of Article 8 of the International Opium Convention, signed at Geneva on February 19th, 1925. List of Preparations which the German and Swiss Governments propose to exempt from the Operation of the Convention (document C.H.850) .... 48 5. Application of Article 10 of the International Opium Convention, signed at Geneva on February 19th, 1925. Opinion of the Office international d’Hygiène publique (document C .H .852).......................................................................................................................................... 49 6. Report of a Meeting of the Opium Commission of the Office international d’Hygiène publique, held at Geneva on March 7th, 1930............................................................................ 49 7. International Opium Convention, signed at Geneva on February 19th, 1925 : (1) Note on the Question whether Synthetic Morphine comes within the Scope of the Geneva Inter­ national Opium Convention ; (2) Manufacture of Eucodal and Dicodide from Morphine and Codeine (document C .H .851)................................................................................ 50 8. Application of Article 10 of the International Opium Convention, signed at Geneva on February 19th, 1925, to Acedicone, a New Derivative of Codeinone : Report by Professor Knaffl-Lenz (document C.H.852)................................................................................................ 54 9. Establishment of a Permanent Secretariat for the Unification of Pharmacopoeias : Letter from the Belgian Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the Secretary-General (document C.H. 856).................................. : ................................................................"................................................. 56 10. Report on the Work of the Fifteenth Session of the Health Committee, held at Geneva from March 5th to 8th, 1930 (document C. 158^.75.1930. III.)................................................ 58 LIST OF MEMBERS. The following members were present at the session : Dr. Th. M a d s e n , Director of the State Serum Institute, Copenhagen, President. M. O. V e l g h e , President of the Comité permanent de l’Office international d'Hygiène publique, Paris ; former Secretary-General of the Ministry of the Interior and of Health, Brussels, Vice-President (ex-officio). Dr. Witold Ch o d zk o , former Polish Minister of Health ; Director of the State School of Hygiene, Warsaw, Vice-President. Professor Ricardo J o r g e , Technical President of the Public Health Council, Lisbon, Vice-President. Professor Léon B e r n a r d , Professor of Tuberculosis at the Faculty of Medicine, Paris ; President of the Conseil supérieur d’hygiène at the French Ministry of Health, Paris. Sir George B u c h a n a n , Senior Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, London. Professor J. Ca n t a c u z è n e , Professor of Bacteriology and Director of the Institute of Experimental Medicine, Bucharest. Dr. H. Ca r r iè r e , Director of the Swiss Federal Public Health Service, Berne (attended the meetings from March 7th). Dr. C. H a m e l , President of the Reichsgesundheitsamt, Berlin. Dr. N. M. J. J it t a , President of the Public Health Council of the Netherlands, The Hague. Dr. A. L u t r a r io , former Director-General of Public Health, Rome. Professor B. N o cht, Rector of the University and Director of the Institute of Tropical Diseases, Hamburg. Professor D. O t t o l e n g h i, Professor of Hygiene at the Royal University of Bologna. Professor G. P itta lu g a , Professor of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Madrid University. Dr. L. R a j chm an, Medical Director, Secretary of the Committee. At the request of Doctor T su r u m i, who was detained, Professor M. Miy a jim a , Member of the Kitasato Institute, Tokio, Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, Keio University, Tokio, attended the session. The following members were absent : Surgeon-General H. S. Gum m in g, Chief of the United States Public Health Service, Washington (D.C.). Dr. M. T s u r u m i, Representative of the Public Health Service of Japan at the Japanese Embassy, Paris. Dr. C. F. A. W in sl o w , Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine ; Member of the