Special Attention Given to Clearing the City of the Bubonic Menace: Immense Interest of the Inhabitants Information about an_ extensive public health campaign from April 21 to 23 in Amoy: has been brought back to Shanghai during the past week by Dr. Iva M, Miller, Acting Director of the Council on Health Education, 23 Yuen Ming Yuen Road.
The campaign was known anti-plague one, with the objectly of eliminating bubonic plague, which has been of annual recurrence la Amoy for centuries, by cleaning up the city and freeing it from rats. In fact, according to Dr. Miller, the motto of the campaign was "Rid 'Amoy of Rats." A health campaign committee composed of representatives from 16 local organization namely, the Y.M.C.A., General La-hour Union, General' Educational Association, Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Merchants, Amoy Medical Association, (Western-trained), Amoy Branch of the Asia 000 visitors attended the exhibits during one week.
About 0,000 attended fectures, and there were 3,200 inoculations against bubonic' plague giver Seventy persons had dental atten: tion, and another point of interest was' to be found in the fact that the first day of the campaign mari. ed the exhaustion of the supply of rat traps, every shopkeeper having sold his stock, under the impetus of the campaign's "motto," and the nearest available trap was the:
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