30 MARCH 1929, Page 13

ITs INCEPTION.

It was, moreover, into the war-wracked, fever-stricken and famished world of 1920 that the League Council brought the Health Conference into being, so that from its very inception that body bent its mind to purely objective problems. Eastern Europe was menaced with typhus and epidemics of relapsing fever which had originated in Russia and spread to the marches of Eastern Poland, the need for remedial and preventa- tive measures was clamant and imperative. Nor were they long delayed. In May of that year it was decided in Rome to appoint a temporary Epidemic Commission to work with the national health organizations in the countries affected. CONSTITUTION AND FINANCE.