The functions of the new depart ment correspond closely to recogn's-ed public health procedure. There be supervision of street clean-inspection of meat, at the hands of Dr. Kwei, graduate in Veterinary Science collection of vital statistics; division concerned with the Control} of Communicable Diseases under Dr.!
Yang, graduate of the University of Berlin, and recently, Assistant, Professor of Bacteriology in the Government University in Peking. The Deputy Commissioner of Public Health, Dr. Hou-ki Bos, is in charge of the whole depart' ment's administration.
It is not perhaps generally known that Dr. H. K Hou has already ts his credit a splendid piece of public! health work in China. Financed partly by the Police Department, and partly by the Peking Union Medical College, in order that] students should have an opportunity] for practical training in principles of Public Health Work, there is, in Peking, a public Health Demonstrat-'
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