The Central Cholera Bureau which was formed some years ago to co-@rdinate the efforts of the health authorities of the various municipal areas of Shanghai held its first m ing. this year at, the Chinese Red Gross Hospital, Avenue Haig, on May 8.
Dr. J. Hong Liu, Director of the National Health" Administration, presided over a gathering of repre: Kentatives of the three municipal health bodies, the National Quai tine Service, the Chinese Red Cross Society, the Railway Administration and the National Health Administ tion, Nanking. Those present in-eluded: Dr. 1. Rajchman, Director of the Health Section of the League 'St Nations, Dr. Wu Lien: Diree- hi Yor of the National Quarantine Ser View, Dr. Li Ting-an, Commissioner of Health, Greater' Shanghai, Dr, He" Jordan, Commissioner' Yiealth, International Settlement, Dr. 3," Rabaute, Directeur, Services Ehygiene et d'Assistance, Concession Francaise, Dr. C. 'T. Teng, medical adviser to. the Shanghai-Nanking-Hangchow Railway," Dr, F.C, Yen and Dr. B. Y. Wang, of the Chinese Red Cross Hospital, Dr.
King, National Health Administration, Drs, H. Smith and K. Dunseombe, Shanghai Muni-I Council, Drs, Lo K. On, T.
'Ku, Greater' Shanghai, Dr. ion, Drs. 'C. L. Hindson, 'Sun,' National Quarantine Borvice.
"Before the business of the meeting was taken up, Dr, Liu requested the embers to stand and maintain one minute's silence in memory. of the into Dr. Houki Hu, Commissioner of Health of Greater Shanghai, who met his death last year.
Dr. Rajehman also, made an important announcement at the meet-Ing with regard to the decision of the League of Nations' Health Organisation in granting a, scholarship fto be known as. the "Houki sholavship") to. commemorate the Merling. services' of the Into Commissioner of Health of the. Munielpality of Greater Shanghai to. the fause of public. health," The offer yas gratefully accepted by Dr. Lin on behalf of the National Health Raministration, and a scheme would be drawn up in due course by t ady fo govern the granting of this ship.
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