In spite of heavy pre-occupations with the editing of 2,000 pages of the Transactions of the Ninth Con-ress of the Far Eastern Assoctation /of Tropical Medicine, Dr. Wu Lien teh and Dr. C. ¥. Wu have promptly produced the fth series of the Hional Quarantine Service Reports, What is more they have maintained the policy of making these reports record recent events and have not fallen back weakly on stock material So it is interesting to read Dr, Wu Lien-teh's survey of plague in, China bringing the student into touch with the outbreak in Fuken last year and with the still perennial but localized epidemics in" Shansi and Shensi. Old-fashioned junks in the South and new-fangled motor-cars in the North assist the spread of the disease, preventive measures against which must include attention to the mischievous potentialities of the domestic rat. Dr. J. W. H. Chun hag a valuable analysis of the cholera problem with special reference to Shanghai. He "has been able to command the friendly ce-operation of Dr. Blakelock of the Shanghat Municipal Council's Public Health Department. The uncomfortable conclusion is that cholera in Shanghai 1s due to a local growth of infection rather than to importation. No doubt the health authorities have given this matter appropriately close attention. Dr. Huizenga contributed a succinct account of the history of leprosy in China and the Report has other expert articles on such subjects fas hheat-stroke, medical inspection of ships and various provincial and station problems.
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