The Archive · 1932

Flood Relief

The devastating floods in the Yangize Valley involved. the loss thousands of lives and tens. fuilions of dollars, also entailing.

thornies who, fortunately, under abouts "forthe, health She direction of the Head. of the National Health" Administration, swore equal to the occasion, "Phu; SEhely medical rtisf, together with "preventive. measures

proper supervision of the refugee Zanips from the beginning, reduced dysentery, cholera and other bowel diseases fo " minimum, Precautions against typhus and other louse. borne diseases have also been' undertaken for the winter, Manchuria The sudden invasion of Manchuria cly Japanese September 18 and a have caused wide-spread sulferin business depression as wel as general unrest throughout "the country. Even our anti-plague work in the Ssutao area was cut short by, military movements and is fortunate for all concerned that the outbreak was practically nipped in the bud before the troubles fully developed,

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