Medical Personnel in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Nurses... 022 eee Health aides, medical........0.0.2000.. 00.0000... Health aides, dental............... Nurses aides. 0.00. eee | Health aides in training............ Nurses aides in training......00..0..00......0... 7 3° 0 | 110 ' 1 28 58 56 June 30, 1950 June 30, 1951 ed Naat Ww go ha ps eee Dental practitioners. .......0..0....2.2.2..000005 *) | 3 | 15° 74: June 30, — ° Medical practitioners .............. 19 | — —_ wo Medical officers (Navy)... 20.0.0. eee Dencal officers (Navy). ...0.00.00.0 00. .200020 00 Dental officers (Civil Service)...02. 200s Medical service corps officers (Navy)... ..0..0..... Hospital corpsmen (Navy).......... a | NMhw Ww od Un 4D June 30, "1948 *Part time, on seaff of Dental Practicioners’ School, Guam. A definite plan for the assignrnent of health aides and nurses aide was set in August 1948: It is believed that this mission can be accomplished by assigning om health aide or nurses aide for each two of the average numberof patients 1 the Civil Administration Unit Dispensary and by employing health aides an: nurses aides in the field .. . For islands or villages with populations of less than 50, no health aid: should be employed. For islands or villages with populations of fron 50 to 400, one health aide should be employed provided al! substantialsettle ments tn the area served are within reasonable walking distance or paddlin; canoe distance of the central village, For islands or villages with a popula tion of from 400 to 1000, a total of two health aides or nurses aides should bi assigned. For large .heavily populated islands, health aides and nurses aide: should be employed on the basis of either a health aide or a nurses aide fo each 500 of population, with the exception of the area surrounding th CivAd Unit dispensary where the number employed will depend upon loca conditions but should be less than on other islands. The above assignment of health aides and nurses aides is considere: sufficient to cover both the care of the sick and the direction of the sanitatior program. Except in the most populous areas the same man or men shoul perform both these functions. Less skilled and jess expensive labor shoul be used for the purely manual work involved in the sanitation program. Ni health aide should be employed purely for sanitation work, except wher: this is of such volume and complexity as to require the full time of a mat with specialized training.” *DepHiComTerPacls ltr ser 1152 dtd + Aug 48. 874 J00b014