MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE ABSTRACTS OF UNEVALUATED INFORMATION

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MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE ABSTRACTS
OF
UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
CIA/Si 25.25-51
10 October 1951
WARNING This document contains information affect-
ing the national defense of the United States., within
the meaning of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the
U. S. Code, as amended. Its transmission or revela-
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1. Soviet Propaganda Clain on New Medical Pteparation Refuted 12Z,
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Findings on. U. s. Research and Production*
The following are excerpts from a report on
Russian newspaper articles, published between
27 January and 31 March 1951: (1) "A valu-
able medical preparation for the treatment of
tuberculosis is PASK (para-aminosalicylic acid),
a chemotherapeutic substance which has a powerful bacteriostatic
action on the tubercle bacillus."
(2) "The chemical industry of the capital-
ist countries has not yet mastered the principles of producing
PASK. This problem has been solved only by the Soviet scientists
and engineers*"
ANALYST'S CCWMENT: A review of the
scientific literature shows that PAS (U. S. term) has received
considerable attention in the medical world since 1946 when
Guy P. Youmans published his findings on the effect of PAS on
tubercle bacilli. At least five different methods of preparing
this important compound were known in 1948. United States pro-
duction records show that 63,300 lbs, were manufactured in 1949
in this country, increasing to at least 279,000 lbs. in 1950.
According to the 1950 Buyers' Guide for Chemical Industries,
there are 35 wholesale suppliers, of which 12 are domestic
manufacturers. Among 22 studies in the years 1946 through
1949, listed in a recent comprehensive bibliography, there is
no reference to Russian authors or journals*
2. Nurses Training Accelerated in Poland*
the
Warsaw government has increased number
of special and accelerated courses for
nurses and hospital attendants. The Six-
Year Plan provides for 30,000 trained nurses, but only 1,000
Class I nurses and 3,500 Class II nurses have been graduated so
far. Reason for intensified nurses training program is to
eliminate nuns from hospitals and to provide reserve of hospital
personnel in case of war. "Rome, Bollettino Danubian�, 22 Feb 51),
ANALYST'S COMMENT: This is the first report
of an accelerated medical training program in Poland. It is
particularly interesting since the purpose of providing reserve
medical personnel in case of mar is specifically mentioned,: This
report ties in with similar reports of medical training programs
in other satellite areas.
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Bucharest is Without Surgical Dressings.
the Rumanian government has
limitless opantities of cloth for propa-
ganda signs, but the country lacks surgi-
cal dressings for most urgent purposes*
Surgeons performing major operations in
Bucharest must leave incisions bare be-
cause the city is without dressings*
ANAYST'S COMMENTs
this scarcity or an item
relatively inexpensive, and easy to produce locally, suggests a
shocking lack of concern for civilian medical care. It is
possible that there may be a sudden and acute shortage of sur-
gical dressings because of an acceleration in stockpiling for
military use.
Public Health Emphasized in the New China*
Moscow Daily Press
Review, No. 229
17 Aug 1951
(Reed 24 Sept 51)
A TASS release from Peking to Moscow
newspapers on 15 August 1951 ascribes
unprecedented development of China's
public health services to the efforts
of the Central People's government*
Some of the claims made ares (1) More
than 80% of all districts of China now have hospitals and health
centers, with an increase of more than 2i times in the number of
public hospitals as compared with the KUOMINTANG period; (2) In
many areas where smallpox outbreaks previously occurred, no
cases have been reported for more than a year and 600800,000
vaccinations were done in 1950; (3) Great attention is paid to
maternal and child welfare, and about 200000 creches have been
opened (14 times more than under the Kuomintang regime);
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50 Public Health Emphasized in the New China (Contgd).
(4) Health of workers is being safeguarded s with introduction
of an insurance system and organization of sanatoriums and rest
homes; (5) Hygiene supervisions physical cultures and holiday
camps have been started for school children; (6) Medical insti-
tutions and schools are being built, and in l9509 five times more
students were accepted in the medical institutions in China than
under the Kuomintang regime.
ANALYST1S COMMENT
emphasis on public health in the New China is confirmed
There is no question but that tills
rather remarkable campaign for disease prevention is making
notable progress. Hovevers it is believed that the quality
of medical education is poor and claims of achievement are
exaggerated.
6. Shortages of Vaccine to Combat Foot and Mouth Disease
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Epizootic in Germany.
An outbreak of foot and mouth disease
is reported from Land Bremen and sur-
rounding areas. Before the wars the
center of production for foot and
mouth vaccine
is now in the Eastern
Zone.
Chief sources of vaccine in West Germany
are not producing enongh
vaccine to meet present needs. Some vaccine has been imported
from Italys but is not of the same high quality as that produced
in Germany. Importation of Danish vaccine is a possible way of
meeting the shortage.
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(b)(3)
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
ANATXSTe S C0MMENT:3 (b)(3)
In 150 delivered about 29000 liters (W(1)
(300 doses per liter) to Western Germanys but such deliveries (b)(3)
ceased at the beginning of the blockade. As of September 1950,
producing about 42000 liters
per month of monovalent Type As monovalent Type B9 and bivalent
Types A and B vaccines. The vaccine is stored at depots in each
Land in East Germanys and as of September 19509 plans were pro-
mulgated to inoculate, with bivalent vaccine the entire cattle '
population of East Germany. Apparentlys (b)(1)
the SovZone of Germany has much greater (b)(3)
capabilities to combat foot and mouth disease than has Western
Germany. During a foot and mouth disease epizootic in Yugoslavia
in May 19519 two emergency shipments of foot and mouth vaccine
were flown from Denmark to Yugoslavia. (b)(1)
(b)(3)
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Shortages of Vaccine to Combat Foot and Mouth Disease
Epizootic in Germany TronWl..
Construction of Hospital Cars in Hungary.
One, hundred and fifty railroad hospital
cars are being rushed to completion at
the Gyor factory.
ANALYST') S COMMIT
'The production
of large numbers of hospital cars indicates military usage
primarily.
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