German Micronesia and the Beginning of Medical and Health Education
Ballendorf, Dirk Anthony (1994-03-01). "German Micronesia and the Beginning of Medical and Health Education". Pacific Health Dialog. 1 (1): 24–25. ISSN 1015-7867.
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Abstract: The beginning of health and medical education in Micronesia are usually traced to the end of World War ll and the establishment of various training programs for Micronesians at Guam. However, such training and education really goes back considerably farther. Spanish Catholic missionaries working in the Carolines between 1885 and 1 899 frequently treated islanders who were ill or who had met with accidents. Such treatment was dispensed on an ad hoc basis at the modest mission compounds erected in the district centers. It might more appropriately be referred to as "first aid," since none of New Guinea Protectorate was established which included the Bismarck Archipelago, a few of the Solomon Islands, and New Guinea. Following that, other less wealthy German traders began operating businesses in the Pacific, such as Alfred Cappelle and Stapenhorst and Herrnshei rn. In 1885 Germany established a protectorate over the Marshall Islands which the Spanish objected to; however, the dispute was mediated by Pope Leo XIII who awarded the Marshalls to Germany and allowed the Reich to establish coaling and trading stations in the Carolines. After the Spanish-American War, Germany bought the remaining Spanish possessions of the Marianas and the Carolines for some 30,000,000 Marks.
