Medical Conferences in India and Siam: Many Notable Visita and Results: Medical Knowledge in India Among the passengers who" ed on Monday in Shanghai irom the P, & 0. S. Morea was Dr. Wu Lien-teh, Director of the Manchurian Plague Prevention Service, Interviewed by our representative, Dr, Wa, who was looking well and rather sun-burnt, said that his tri to India and Siam had beon'a most instructive one, from which he expected to receive much benefit for his future work in this country. His mission to India occupied three stages: first the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine (December 1927), second the Advisory Council of the League of Nations Health Bureau at Delhi, and third the Health Interchange comprising 18 doctors sent from 12 territories in the Far East (January. 1 to Febroary 20 1928), Regarding the Medical Conference, which was held in Calcutta early in December, Dr. Wu stated that it was a grabd success, over 1800 physicians and surgeons rogistering their names, The Gover nor of Bengal (Sir Stanley Jackson) opened. the proceedings and was ably supported by lead Teading British and Indian representatives of the medical profession all over India, The best papers read were undoubtedly those upon malaria, cholera and plague, although the sections dealing with midwifery, pharmacology and public health were fully attended,
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