unit (civad unit) was under the direction of a Naval Medical Corps officer assigned to the civil administration unit staff and responsible for administrative matters to the civil administrator. He was assisted by one or two additional Medical Corps officers, a Medical Service Corps officer as administrative assistant, and six to ten hospital corpsmen. No Nurse Corps officers were stationed at civad units. After the Yap and Koror Districts were combined under the Civil Adminis- trator Koror on June 30, 1948, one Medical Corps officer continued to be stationed at Yap on thestaff of the Civil Administration Representative Yap; when Kwajalein and Majuro were combined under the Civil Administrator Majuro on October 1, 1948, medical care of natives in the Kwajalein Atoll was provided by personnel of the staft of the Governor of the Marshalls.’ The general responsibilities of the Department of Public Health in each civil administration unit were stated in Interim Regulation 4~48, Chapter 4. as: (1) Medical and Dental Care (2) Sanitation (3) Leprosaria (4) Asylums ) Dispensaries ) Hospitals ) Health and Nurses Aides Training ) Health Quarantine ) Preventive Medicine ) Insect and Rodent Control ) Cemeteries ) Vital Statistics The primary mission assigned the Medical Department personnel was “to raise the public health standards in their respective districts and to control preventable diseases among the inhabitants thereof.” The secondary mission was “to render medical care to inhabitants, to conduct limited research into health problems, andto assist in native training programs by training Health No Naval Dental Corps officers were regulations of the Bureau of Medicine for other than naval personnel® and Aides and Nurses Aides.” ” assignedto the field. Existing and Surgery forbade their use the administration employed * See pp. 125 fl. and pp. 152-3. : Encl (Aj to DepHiComTerPacls ttr ser ro22 dtd 13 Jul 4&. ‘Supra, p. 306. 871 S00b01 1