Viecount Ishii, in reading the report of the Health Committee of c' tthe League of Nations to the Counil to-day, expressed his apprecia-jon of the Committee's work in the pat three yenrs regarding the opium traffic. He referred to the grave problem of dysentery in the Far East and expressed his Plearure that a Japanese doctor was able to participate in " the Health Conference. He announced that definite steps would be taken to organize at Singapore a special branch of the Health Section of the League, which woul greatly assist in combating epidenvies. Viscount. Ishii also stated that a Far Eastern Health Conference would be conjyened in Japan nest February and that there would-be an interehinge lof Far Bastern health officers nex! year.
The Council approved of the Jwork of the Health Committee Reuter.
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