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

In 1960, based on the province decree, in order to coordinate with the coming-up tasks a nurse room was initially established and then its title was changed to 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 title of the nurse room was changed to the fifth section; in order to deal the business, all of the public health nurses, nurses and midwives whose titles were corrected into nursing supervision officers in December 1980.

The number of the staff was expanded from the authorized 31 people to later 45 people; when the task of food hygiene became much heavier, the seventh section was set up in January 1985 and until then the total number of the bureau’s staff was 51 people; in 1987 inspectors, personnel assistants, and accounting assistants joined the staff; On May 1st 1991 part of the staff were transferred to the Environment Protecting Bureau since its establishment, so the number of the staff remains 51 people in the table of organization.

The staff moved from the old Miaoli investigation station into the present location of hygiene and examining building, which the former Director- General, Lin, Ke-Syun had been busy negotiating and consulting with the officers in the Miaoli County Government; fortunately, they reached a common view and the installation then begun.

Cooperating with the local self-government’s law in 2000, organization of the bureau was revised to seven sections and four offices, including the Disease Control Section, Planning Section, Medical Affairs Section, Health Promotion Section, Laboratory Section, Food Safety Section, 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 title of nurse and dietician was changed to technical specialist, the amount of members however still remains 51 people.

With the progress of the society and development of the medical health care technology, there have been new problems coming up with the public hygiene. Dealing with environmental changes and changes in population structure, the bureau has been working on improving each kind of the measures, going deeply into villages and trying to solve the citizen’s problems with bottom-up strategies, such as disease prevention and medical health care, caring for the vulnerable, establishing home care centers, cracking down illegal pharmaceutical and medical advertisements, medical fraud investigations and sanctions, balancing and sustaining the medical resources, and ensuring the citizens the food hygiene and safety.

With the punctual hygiene policies indicated by authorities, our bureau can develop proactive future and set our goals and finally carry out them, hoping to serve our citizens with safer and even more hygiene living.