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[CITE: 22USC290]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
                SUBCHAPTER XX--WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
 
Sec. 290. Acceptance of membership by the United States

    The President is hereby authorized to accept membership for the 
United States in the World Health Organization (hereinafter referred to 
as the Organization), the constitution of which was adopted in New York 
on July 22, 1946, by the International Health Conference for the 
establishment of an International Health Organization, and deposited in 
the archives of the United Nations.

(June 14, 1948, ch. 469, Sec. 1, 62 Stat. 441.)


                   International Health Administration

    Ex. Ord. No. 10399, Sept. 29, 1952, 17 F.R. 8648, designated Surgeon 
General to perform certain duties under International Sanitary 
Regulations of World Health Organization.
