To the Eiitor of the Sim—Having read, in aper, the article "Strange Story, at an' Inquest," T cannot help argue ing with Mr.' Stevens, Senior Cone sul's Deputy. Does he know hei in Shanghai any doctor with more knowledge than Dr. Bary? To quese tion "his qualifications to issue a death certificate is ridiculous. to those who know the position Dx. Bary held in Petrograd; ho had his own hospital, and I' saw him. being President of the City Union Hospitals during the Great War. I met Dr, Bary almost at every meeting of doctors of the Marins-kobe Vedomstwo, and I remember very well his authoritative position: in Petrograd, where no one without qualifications could practise and Which, you must own, was a greater city in'those days than Shanghai now.
Would it not be advisable for medical practitioners to have here compulsory registration andy thus, to avoid this kind of misunder= standings?
Tam, ete, Dn. RR. Tonrensa, Shanghai, July 16, "1929,
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