PAN
AMERICAN
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
WORLD
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
3rd DIRECTING COUNCIL
1st
SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE
Washington D.C., 6 - 13 October 1949
RESOLUTION
CD3.R23
VOTES
THE 3rd DIRECTING COUNCIL,
RENDERS, at the suggestion of the Peruvian Delegation, unanimously seconded by all the other
Delegations, sincere homage to the memory of the Director Emeritus of the Pan American Sanitary
Bureau, General Hugh S. Cumming, who died on 20 December 1948. General Cumming's death
marked the passing of the pre-eminent figure of his generation in international health agencies.
RENDERS HOMAGE to the memory of its Honorary Member, Dr. Luis Gaitán, whose demise
occurred in Guatemala on 21 July 1949. Upon his death, the Pan American Sanitary Bureau lost the
first of its honorary members and one of its most sincere and devoted friends.
Oct. 1949 Pub. 247, 34