British interest in public health would not only be acceptable:
the Chinese but it would:
but natural in such an.
stance to expect one nation give to another that part of its culture in which it leads the world. For, since the Public Health Act of 1848, Great Britain has maintained her proemment position in governmental health activities, cul-mating in the Act of 1919 creating a Ministry of Health. It would thus be only natural for her to extend to China the already worldwide influence resulting from the social machinery established through the labour of Chadwick, Simon, Farr and others. Moreover, such 4 gesture in preventive medicine would be especially appreciated in 4 country which owes the introduetion of curative medicine to such British pioneers og Robert Morrison and Lockhart, who stand in the same relation to the history of mo-diem medicine in China as von Siebold and the Dutch to Japanese medical history.
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