OFFICE OF THE SUPREME COMMANDER
FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

APO 500
22 September 1945.

AG 710 (22 Sep 45) MG
(SCAPIN-48)

MEMORANDUM FOR	THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.
THROUGH	Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.
SUBJECT	Public Health Measures.

The Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers directs that the Imperial Japanese Government take the following action:
1. An immediate survey by agencies of the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare to determine:
a. Disease prevalence in each prefecture.
b. Medical, dental, veterinary and public health personnel available in each prefecture.
c. Hospital facilities, medical, veterinary and sanitary supplies present in each area with a comment in each instance as to its adequacy.
d. The adequacy of laws and regulation of the indigenous Japanese Public Health and Welfare authorities to meet current requirements.
2. Immediately inaugurate such measures as:
a. Weekly reports of communicable diseases by prefecture.
b. Examination, detention or hospitalization of cases or suspected cases of communicable disease.
c. Immunization, disinfectation and control of any disease which would be likely to seriously affect civilian health.
3. Restore all public water supply, sewerage system and other human waste disposal means to the maximum civilian capacity with the least practicable delay through the use of civilian resources and labor.
4. Reopen or continue in operation civilian hospitals, sanatoria, leprosaria and clinics for use of indigenous population as rapidly as conditions permit or require. Where civilian hospital space is inadequate, a survey of schools or other buildings will be made to locate facilities which are suitable to be used as emergency hospitals and these buildings so designated.
5. All civilian (wholesale) and Japanese Military and Naval medical, dental, veterinary, sanitation supplies and military foodstuffs will be distributed through indigenous Japanese agencies in accordance with Military Occupational control plans on recommedation to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers for their conservation and distribution.
6. Inaugurate port quarantine control in cooperation with United States Naval Forces. Port quarantine will be established by Japanese civilian control.
7. Reopen or continue in operation civilian laboratory facilities for public health work, for clinical diagnosis, and for the manufacture of sera and vaccines.
8. Expedite the reporting and analysis of vital statistics data in accordance with policies established by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers.
9. Place special emphasis on adequate measures for the control of all venereal diseases occurring in indigenous Japanese personnel. This will be accomplished by using existing Japanese agencies.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

/s/ Harold Fair
/t/ HAROLD FAIR,
Lt. Col.,AGD
Asst. Adjutant General