We hereby give our Sanction to the Ordinance Concerning the Organizing Regulations of the Functionaries for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases, and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: Hirohito, Seal of the Emperor This seventh day of the fifth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (7 May, 1946) Countersigned: Baron Kijuro Shidehara Prime Minister Hitoshi Ashida Minister of Welfare Imperial Ordinance No. 265 Amendments as follows shall be introduced in the organizing Regulations of the Functionaries for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases: In Art. 1, relative to the Welfare Technical Officers, the words "three officers of full service" shall be read as "ten officers of full service". Supplementary Provision: The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of promulgation.