Miaoli County Public Health Bureau once called the Miaoli County Health
Office was established on October 25, 1950. This department was in
charge of local public hygiene and basic medical and health tasks., It was?
composed of three sections, three offices, and one outpatient clinic. It had
one department head and belonged to the Miaoli County government.

In 1960, based on a provincial decree, in order to coordinate with the upcoming

 tasks a nurses’ roomwas initially established, and its
name was changed to the Miaoli County Public Health Bureau in July 1961.
The units in the bureau were expanded to six sections and three offices. At
that time, the nurses’ room was renamed as the fifth
section. In order to deal with the situation, all public health
nurses, nurses, and midwives had their titles changed
to nursing supervision officers in December 1980.
The number of staffs was expanded from the authorized 31 people to
45 people. When the tasks of food hygiene became much heavier, a
seventh section was established in January 1985 to deal with food
hygiene. This increased the total number of the bureau’s staff
to 51 people. In 1987 inspectors, personnel assistants, and accounting
assistants joined the staff. On May 1st 1991, some of the staff were
transferred to the Environment Protecting Bureau,
thus, the number of employees remained at 51 people.
The staff moved from the old Miaoli Investigation Station to the present
location, the Hygiene and Examining Building, where the former
Director- General, Lin, Ke-Syun, had been busy negotiating and consulting
with the officers in the Miaoli County government at the time. Fortunately,
they reached a consensus and the move was successful.
In cooperation with local government in 2000, the
organization of the Miaoli County Public Health Bureau was revised to
six sections and four offices; the Disease Control Section, Planning
Section, Medical Affairs Section, Health Promotion Section, Laboratory
Section, Food Safety Section, and the General Affairs Office, Personnel
Office, Accounting Office, and Civil Service Ethics Office.
In order to follow the government’s downsizing policy, the position of technical
specialist was promoted to deputy director; one technical specialist was
promoted to executive; the titles of nurse and dietician were changed to
technical specialists. However, the amount of workers still remains 51 people.
With the progress of the society and development of advanced medical
health care technology, new problems have arisen
with public hygiene. Dealing with environmental changes and changes
in population structure, the Bureau has been working on improving each
of the measures by going deeply into villages and trying to solve the citizens’
problems with bottom-up strategies, such as: disease prevention and medical
health care, caring for the vulnerable, establishing home care centers,
cracking down on illegal pharmaceutical and medical advertisements, medical
fraud investigations and sanctions, balancing and sustaining medical
resources, and ensuring the citizens’ food hygiene and safety.
With the impressive hygiene policies indicated by the authorities,
the Miaoli County Public Health Bureau can develop a proactive future and
set their goals and finally carry them out, hoping to serve their
citizens with a safer and even more hygienic lifestyle.