The conference in Siam has en its agenda a discussion of the varied tropical and Oriental epidemics. Papers on the nutritional and insect bone diseases as well as the endemic scourges so prevalent among Asiatics are te be dealt with in detail. Malaria, cholera, plague, beri beri, yellow fever, and pneumonic plague are the subjects to be treated, not from a medical point of view, but from the preventive.
It was the request of the League of Nations that the opium question should be emphasized at the coming conference, and acting upon the suggestion, due time has been assigned to this vital factor in the life of so many of the lower classes of Oriental inhabitants.
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