57 STAT.] COLOMBIA-HEALTH AND SANITATION PROGRAM-OCT. 23 , 1942 1311 It is understood that Your Excellency's Government will furnish such expert personnel, services, and funds for local expenditures as it may consider necessary for the efficient development of the program. The group of United States doctors and sanitary engineers which will be sent to Colombia by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs shall be under the direction of the Chief Medical Officer of that Office, who in turn will be under the supervision of the appropriate officials of the Colombian Government. It is understood that a special service of public health and sanitation will be established within the Ministry of Trabajo, Higiene y Previsi6n Social under the direction of the Chief Medical Officer of the Coordinator's Office, and that detailed arrangements for the establishment of such a special service will be carried out between Brigadier General George C. Dunham, Director of the Health and Sanitation Division of the Coordinator's Office, and the Minister of Trabajo, Higiene y Pre- visi6n Social. The expenditure of United States funds for the purposes of this program will be handled through the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, of which the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs is Presi- dent and of which General George C. Dunham is Director of the Health and Sanitation Division. Detailed arrangements for the execution of each project will be discussed and agreed to between the Chief Medical Officer and the appropriate officer of Your Excellency's Government in the area of the proposed project. It is understood that the Government of Colombia is particularly interested in including in the program projects aimed at continuing and extending measures and services which the public health and sanitation agencies of the Colombian Government have been carrying out with efficiency and success. The measures and services embodied in the health and sanitation program are included under the following headings: 1. The improvement of nutrition in a general program for the improvement of the public health of Colombia, utilizing the serv- ices already established by the Ministerio de Trabajo, Higiene y Previsi6n Social; 2. Assistance in the control of malaria, with particular refer- ence to the eradication of malaria in the ports of Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Buenaventura, Tumaco, and Bahia Solano; 3. Assistance in the control and eradication of Rickettsiasis; 4. Assistance in the control and eradication of Bartonellosis; 5. Assistance in the sanitation of ports, particularly the ports of Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Buenaventura, Tu- maco, and Bahia Solano, and such other areas as may be agreed upon; 6. The establishment, in so far as practicable, of public health centers for the effective execution of this program;
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