pharmaceuticals were promulgated in Interim Regulation 4-48,
Chapter 7:
Tt 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.
It shall be unlawful to import, sell, traffic in, purchase, give or prescribe
narcotics or medicine containing narcotics or other so-called habit-forming
drugs except by specific authority of the Civil Administrator.
Alcoholic beverages consumed in the area were entirely of local
manufacture except on Saipan where thesale of beer was permitted.
Asin the case of betel nut, its use in accordance with indigenoustradition was permitted subject to community control. Intoxication was
more a matter of law enforcement than a medical problem.”
Health Education
The importance of health education to the people of the Trust
Territory was always evident to the medical personnel but its satisfactory implementation was not possible during the too brief time of
naval administration. As in other phases of administration, the principal difficulties were experienced in the outlying areas, away from the
civil administration headquarters, where contacts with the indigenes
were infrequent.
Health education was included in all school curricula and especially
at the Pacific Island Teachers Training School (PITTS). The fundamentals of hygiene, sanitation, and preventive medicine were taught
in the schools and students at the Teacher Training School received
additional instruction in methods of teaching health subjects. Medical
officers at administration headquarters conductedclasses at the intermediate schools and lectured to adult classes at evening schools. Visual
aids, especially posters and films, weredistributed widely by the Health
Department and always received with interest: medical personnel,
however, could never be certain, in the case of films, to what extent
the natives’ eagerness for “movies” inspired their attention. At times
the people reacted in an unexpected manner to the determination of
the lecturer to clarify the issue. One doctor, who expended great
effort in constructing a three foot model of a fly for use in describing
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