GENERAL HEADQUARTERS SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

1．Inorder to cope adequately with the emergency health and welfare situation, as directed by Memorandums numbered (SCAPIN 48) 22 September 1945, and (SCAPIN 775) 27 February 1946, the Imperial Japanese Government will immediately reorganize the administration or healthe and welfare activities to provide for the following administration of func tions：

　a．A Bureau of Health, the responsibility of which will be public health (maternity, child, and adult hygiene), health education, vital statistics activities and nutritional activities.