School of Medical Practitioners become available. The courses shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of CinCPacFlt letter. serial 1557, dated 10 March 1947, and Commander Marianas letter serial 11116, dated 16 April rog7. The training program shall be conductedat the Civil Administration Unit Dispensaries for a minimum of six (6) months, with an additional three (3) months training in the field. The subjects to be taught shall include basic English, care of the sick and injured, preventive medicine, sanitation, and rodent control. IV. Care of the Sick and Injured: Medical and dental care shall be provided the inhabitants of islands of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, commensurate with medical and dental personnel and facilities available. Subsistence shall be provided for patients in the dispensaries making charges for such subsistence in accordance with current directives. (Commander Marianas letter serial 12402 dated 14 May 1947.) However, every effort should be made to substitute native foods for Navy rations whenever practicable in order to reduce the cost of subsistence to the government and provide a diet more nearly in accord with native food habits and desires. At the sametimethatthe policy andinterim program weredirected, November 28, 1947, the High Commissioner issued Pablic Health Rules and Regulations for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands to control preventable diseases and elevate public health standards in the islands. Persons violating any of the following regulations were subject to trial by authorized courtsof justice: 1. Tt shall be the responsibility of the Civil Administrator to promulgate and enforce the regulations set forth herein and to formulate such additional rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary for the furtherance of the public health objectives. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to practice medicine or other of the healing arts for a fee unless duly licensed and/or authorized by the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or his duly appointed representative. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person other than those properly accredited to import, sell. give or dispense medicines, drugs, or other substances of a deleterious nature, which in the opinion of proper medical authority should only be administered by authorized practitioners, physicians or other medical personnel. 4. It shall be unlawtul to import, sell, trathe in, purchase, give or prescribe narcotics or medicine containing narcotics or other so-called habitforming drugs except by specific authority of the Civil Administrator. 5. It shall be unlawful to knowingly and willfully conceal or fail to report to proper authorities, cases of communicable diseases. Persons suffering from contagious or communicable diseases or known contacts thereto. 859 90053999