Health Leagues in Indian Villages
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service have been in progress through the formation of health units, that the question of ^proving and extending water supplies in the rural areas has received attention and that the provision of a cheap but satisfactorysystem of night-soil disposal has also been Under investigation. A health unit is an Organization set up in an area with a population approximately 40,000 for the purpose of studying the methods of developing a rural health service. The staff usually consists of a Medical officer of health, an assistant medical officer, proferably a woman, four sanitary inspectors, four health visitors, eight midwives, 0lle clerk and the necessary menials. An encouraging feature of the health unit system has keen the development of health leagues in pillages. Health units were working during |^40 in the provinces of Madras, Bombay, Pelhi, Bengal and the United Provinces. The Rockefeller Foundation has made substantial ?ra_nts to these health units and has also helped heir working with the technical advice of Afferent members of its staff resident in India.
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