Grading of Porte-—Letters from the Chairman of the Health Section of the Joint Conference of the Hongkong and China Branch of the British Medical Association, the China Medical missionary Associ tion, the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce and the Britis Chamber of Commerce, with regard to the sanitary conditions at present existing in Shanghai, are sub-itted for preliminary considera tion, In his comment thereon the Commissioner of Public Health recommends that, as a preliminary step, a comprehensive sanitary survey should be made by experts and high officials representing all the authorities concerned, and that it would be advisable in addition to of experts re-two or more high authorities such as the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations. He understands that the services of the International Health Board are available for any enterprise bearing on the health of the world upon notification from Gov-emmental agencies; and that the International Health Board has in the past manifested a disposition to bear' the initial cost of such enters prine if there are prospects that their purpose will ult carried out by the Gover agencies concerned, After brief ditcussion members agree that the question raised ix one of funda~ rental and vital importance to the future prosperity of the Port of Shanghai, and whilst unanimously approving in principle the Commissioner's recommendations as to to submit a more detailed report far to what aspects of the sanitary situation should be embraced by the proposed survey and to state if possible what proportion of expenditure involved the Couneit might be called upon to bear. keepers and hawkers are the heuviest suffers, and the Street Unions fave ready "beginning to cry out against the iniquity. Chapel res sidents have addressed a letter to the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce urging that steps be taken to prevent the further portation of these coins us their presence on the market weakens the. financial condition of the merch:
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