Juliet Chisholm correspondence
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- Juliet Chisholm
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- A letter to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Hunan Regional Office from Dr. Juliet Chisholm. The letter is sent to Mr. Luther T. Hoffman. (Page 1)
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- Changsha, 15 June 1946.
MEMORANDUM To: Mr. Luther T. Hoffman,
Director, UNRRA Hunan Regional Office
From: Dr. Juliet Chisholm Acting Regional Medical Officer
Subject: Health Division, Weekly Report.
I. Health UNRRA Personnel. A. Vaccines requested arrived, and all UNRRA Hunan Regional Office personnel and programme personnel in Hunan have received necessary protective innoculations.
B. Repeated requests for supplies, necessary for the care of UNRRA Hunan Regional Office personnel and programme personnel in Hunan have been made.
C. It must be stressed that safe intravenous fluids are necessary because of defective local methods resulting in severe reactions. One case of cholera was reported in Hankow from Changsha. As the Changsha refugee center is located about 50 feet from the UNRRA building, as the refugee latrine is not screened, as the UNRRA building is only partly screened by locally purchased screening (screening was requested five months ago and allocated to us but has not yet arrived), thus UNRRA personnel may be exposed to cholera.
D. CNRRA supplies of drugs have been slow coming in and drugs necessary for treatment of UNRRA personnel might not be available at local hospitals. For example: At Yoyang the only physician at the Reformed Mission Hospital was suffering from relapsing fever. No treatment was possible as his supply of arsenicals had run out.
E. Personnel who go into the field are exposed to numerous health hazards: Exposure to tuberculosis is inevitable since the incidence is reported at 50% and diseases carried by swarms of flies on the dinner table are not preventable since only two partially screened buildings have been seen.
These hazards at present cannot be prevented but for those hazards that can be prevented it is felt that adequate provision should be made. For example: 1. Lice and fleas are common in inns, refugee centers, streets, etc., where the curious crowd closely around the worker. - Date of Original
- 1946
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- 990.66.609
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