Abstract
The Galle Medical Journal is published by the Galle Medical Association. The journal is published quarterly in March, June, September and December each year. The submissions are accepted throughout the year. The aims of the Journal are to foster co-operation among the medical fraternity and to be a forum to make literary contributions, share experiences encountered in medical practice, update their knowledge and have debates on topics related to all aspects of medicine.
Highlights
On July 1, 1926, when the first health unit in Asia was inaugurated at Kalutara-Totamune, a suburb 43 km. south of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Dr W.P
The health unit program was based on the Rockefeller Foundation’s experience in the “county health unit system” in the southern United States, where Jacocks had worked as a public health officer of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission
The Committee pointed out that the type of candidates suitable for public health nursing were “young and educated women who were well versed in their native languages”, and it was this class of women “who has supplied successful teachers” for the country’s schools
Summary
On July 1, 1926, when the first health unit in Asia was inaugurated at Kalutara-Totamune, a suburb 43 km. south of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Dr W.P. The Kalutara health unit grew steadily, and became Sri Lanka's premier training center of public health personnel. Following the Foundation’s hookworm control program on the plantations in Sri Lanka, Jacocks was appointed as the “Advisory Health Officer” to the Department of Medical and Sanitary Services. It was in this capacity that Jacocks and his Sri Lankan counterpart, Dr S. As the health units grew steadily, Jacocks spearheaded a campaign to train public health nurses in Sri Lanka. This paper examines his effort to develop a public. Galle Medical Journal, Vol 17: No 2, October 2012 health nursing program at the Kalutara health unit, and the difficulties he encountered due to British colonial politics, which almost scuttled the health unit program
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