ABSTRACT
The majority of the population of French Indo-China, however, are still at a stage in which their primary concern relates to their standard of life. Political institutions cannot be built on a foundation of poor material resources, of insufficient health and of undeveloped minds. In the field of public health, the French authorities have a double task to contend with. The establishment in Hanoi of a medical faculty attended by both indigenous and French students has done much towards improving and propagating medical care in Indo-China. The students who succeed in their examinations and come out as medical doctors are quite the equivalent of French medical doctors who have followed courses in the Paris Faculty. The populations of the up-country regions and the nomadic tribes will best be reached by the use of mobile medical units, travelling by car and truck and transporting the necessary equipment to treat the patients, operate on them and especially give them vaccinations.
