Chapter XLI ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM Organization and Personnel Direction of the health program at the time of establishment of trusteeship was the responsibility of the Senior Medical Officer on the staff of Commander Marianas Area (ComMarianas) who had additional duty on the Staff of the Deputy High Commissionerof the Trust Territory (DepHiComTerPacls). Assisting him was the ComMarianas Staff Dental Officer who also had additional duty on the DepHiComTerPacls Staff. This arrangement continued until February 1, 1949 when a Medical Corps officer of the rank of captain was assigned full time duty as Public Health Officer on the DepHiComTerPacls Staff. The billet of Staff Dental Officer, however, remained an additional duty assignment throughout the period of naval administration. The Staff Public Health Officer maintained his headquarters at Guam during the period when the DepHiComTerPacls Staff was located there, and after the transfer of part of the staff to Pearl Harbor in October 1949, he continued to remain on Guam aspart of the Chief Administrator Field Headquarters (FieldTerPacls) Staff. When the latter moved to Truk in June rg50, the Public Health Officer also transferred his headquarters there. In Augustof that year, when the Trust Territory Government was reorganized by Interim Regulation 3-50, his title was changed to Director of Public Health. The responsibilities assigned to the Public Health Officer of the DepHiComTerPacls Staff were briefly stated by Interim Regulation 4-48, Section 2, as direction of the programsfor: (1) Preventive Medicine; (2) Medical and Dental Care; (3) Health and Training Pro- grams; (4) Medical and Dental Research Programs: (5) Annual Health Survey; (6) Health Quarantine.’ Responsibility for the train- "For copy of Int. Rey. 4-48, see app. 6, p. 1137. 867 s00b001