At the first business session the following committees were ap: pointed: Nominating, Dr. Samuel Cochran of Tsinanfu: Business, Dr, John Snell of Soochow: Press. Dr. Wu Lien-teh of Peking: Resolutions, Dr. Harold Balme of Tsinanfu, The main subject for discussion at the morning session after the business meeting was a review of the medical occupation of China as reported in the several surveys of the field which have been made by the China Continuation Committee. Dr. Henry Fowler of Shang: hai gave a resume of the chief findings as revealed in this survey and as reported by the several commissions of the National Christian Conference which wag held in Shanghai in May.
_the debate which followed Dr. Harold Balme suggested that in opening new medical centres, first claim should be given to the outlying regions because the eastern provinces were relatively better occupied than those. further in the interior. He also urged that inefficient hospitals which found it impossible to anticipate improvement should be closed and only model hospitals which were a credit to modern scientific medicine
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