'The National Leprosy Conference, the frst of its kind ever held in China under the auspices of the Chinese Mission to. Lepers, will be convened in Shanghai of April 14 the new putiding' of the Chinese YAALCA., 128 "Boulevard de
nouncement of the Rev.. C. Wa, Montini, aefordng to, the. one the executive secretary.
Oficial notices are being sent out to the leading medical. practitioners and field-workers in the country, both Chinese and foreign, inviting them to take part in tins' gathering which undoubtedly will go "lon way towards the eradication leprosy' in China as it is. generall stumated that there are 000, suffering from the. disease here, Special invitations will also be sent {toa few well-known leprologists in the neighbouring' countries, such as Dr, AvG. Fletcher and Dra Wises of Korea, Dr. Kua Dr General Chiang Kai-shek is ex: pects to be the chief patron and it. J. Hong Li, head of the National Health "Administration, the honorary president of the confer The conference will be divided into two sections, executive and medical, "The executive part of the conference, which' will. deal with, practical questions on how to combat the disease and eventually bring it into complete control, will be taken large of by Dr. James L, Maxwell, m. medical adviser of the Ohi-hose Mission to Lepers, and Dr EH.
Tyau, dean of the me of St. John's University and supernuendant of the Hongkew clinic for Which will deal with "the. technical The. medisat" part,
3nd sclontife phase of the problem concerning treatment, reseatsh and the manufacture of drags, ete wil in charge of Dr. Fe Reiss' and Dr, TK Chen, both of whom are well-known skin-disease. speciatiate inthe country,
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