Measures to be Taken by Chi nese: Establishment of Sanitary Authority view of the proposed public health programme which is expect dt" be instituted by the Ohinese Guthorities of Greater Shanghai in the next few weeks, certain aspects the health work throughout China, unduided in the recent Conference of the China Medical Association in Peking have unusual value as. reference: The local programme, it is Understood, includes registration of all Ohinese physicians outside the] Settlement in the region outlined will actin ce-operation with the health authorities in the Settlement; amd the training of a sanitary squad, numbering. in all about 200, for the purpose of effectively carrying cut health measures.
In the latter can-|™ nexion it is understood that 80 out 120 police constables in Chinese territory who passed the test given npspective members of the Sanitary squad have gone into the tra which will last about six An a budget of $80,000 is sai available for the health programme during the next year, there is reason: to believe that the present administration will be able to cary out their measures effectively.
The Peking Conference At the Peking conference attended by 200 doctors, 90 per cent, of whore are foreign, though Chinese memdiohip under definite encouragement in yearly increasing, public health formed the central theme for most of the discussions. Among the topica Which appeared on the programme were smallpox vaccination in Canton, epidemiology of typhoid in Korea, public health nursing in China, the need for industrial hygiene investi ation in China, the ring test for tuberculous activity and its relation to diseases prevalent in Chiva, a study of dysentery isolated in China, an inquiry into the, prevalence of Malaria in China, Chinese diet view-fed fiom the standpoint of modern nutrition, malformaticey of foot] bunding, and numerous kindred subacts which definitely sounded the keynote of the conference as local, though combining with this aspect, the health topies of universal scien-title interest,
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