Shanghai Medical Bodies Meet to Discuss and Compare Plans to Prevent Epidemic OR the seventh successive year representatives of national, municipal and public health bodies met on May 17 under the: auspices of the National Health Administration to discuss plans to combat cholera in Shanghai.
This dread summer disease has spared Shanghai since 1933, but although there are some who think that an epidemic this summer is unlikely, the responsible health authorities believe in adequate preparations against a possible outbreak. Already the three municipal health departments have started their inoculation campaigns, and other measures, such as publicity by means of posters, lectures, ete, are being taken in hand.
The meeting this year was held population of Pootung. By. the end the Administration Building of the City Government at the Kiangwan, part of the pop across the month or in early June, lege vie Centre, and was presided Fiver would have access to good. over by Dr. J. Hong Liu, Director portable waterworks water. For. the General of the National Health Ad-inoculation campaign this year, when ministration, he expected to reach a tetel of halt Dr, Liu referred to the serious 'a million injections, the City Govern epidemic situation in Bangkok where ment had a total of 48 units in the over 350 cases a week were reported. fold, comprised of eight teams, five The situation had eased during [Public Health Stations, eight City past two weeks, and the health author /Hospltais and 25 private hospitals and orities there were doing all they lintes, could to keep the outbreak within Railway Measures Bounds. China had been more for-Dr. Huang for the Railway Health tunate, as cholera had passed her Service reported that last year the since 1992, Although they could con-whole of the Railway Staff comprising gratulate themselves that the preven-14,800 employees were compulsorily tive measures employed contributed Inoculated. against cholera, Family greatly to this happy state of affairs, members of the staff and railway they had to be prepared for a pos-Dassengers were also treated, making sible outbreak this: summer, 4 grand total for the Railway Service Representatives Reports 15,320 persons, Over 90 per cent. of these were injected twice, thus Dr, Liu then called upon the re-Jeonferring greater protection, The presentatives present to present re-'Rumber was double that for 1935. ports of their work for the past year, More than, 300,000 pamphlets Dr. T. A. Li, on behalf of the City gastrointestinal diseases were dis-Government of Greater Shanghai, re-Tributed along the two railways in Ported that his department had car-1036, "Boiled ericking water was pro-Fed anti-cholera work on the same vided for third and fourth class Mines as for previous "years. "Em-passengers, while orders were issued phasis was lafd upon sanitation. The that drinking water was to be taken sale of cut fruits was prohibited, and.
In by the trains only at Shanghai, Tegular bacteriological examinations Nenking and Hangchow. Unauthorwere conducted on cold drinks sold {zed food hawkers were prohibited in his area, Fourteen water faucets from entering the coaches. Further, were established in different parts of the fea service which previously the city which supplied free piped had been contracted out was water to the poorer classes of the new undertaken the Railway population. Publicity was pushed by means of posters, handbills, motion pictures and lantern slide gave @ total of 461,354 Cotton Ablaze in Snoculations in 1936, which was a it~ te Jess than the figure for the pre-Foreign Godown vious year, Three or four suspicious eases of cholera were reported. but Settlement firemen late these proved to be negative on fur-May 20 tackled a fire which ther examination. broke out in Messrs. Liddell Brothers godown at the corner of Dr, E. B. Duck for the Shanghai 'Yangtszepoo and Chinwangtao municipal Council remarked that his Roads. One fireman, who slipped Eepartment proceeded on similar fon the roof and received injuries, ines to previous years, Wells in the had to be conveyed to hospital' Settlement were disinfected once a {for treatment. week. Free waterworks water from street hydrants was supplied to the The fire, believed to have sim-Poorer classes of thes population mered for some. time, was frst through the generosity of the Shang-discovered shortly after 11 p.m.on hal Waterworks Company. The 3 first floor of the godown, "An Public Health Department inoculated alarm raised by the godown, 4 total of 192043 persons against watchman brought several ma-cholera in 1986, Including 31,099 chines to the scene.
Individuals who' received. second doses. Sale of cut fruits was prohibited but enforcement of this' administration, thus ensuring a gulation proved dimeult, "In regard pure supply. Since May 1 this year, to publicity, slides were shown in 4,227 inoculations had pers cinemas, while the posters issued formed by the Railway medical improved year by: year. A feature of last year's publicity was the use Dr. Pang on behalf of the Chinese fof special banners. Altogether 118% Red Cross Society said that as there litres of cholera vaccine were manu: was no cholera last year, the Society factured in the medical laboratory. had not opened any hospitals for the A considerable amount of broadcast reception of cases, but added that if ing was also undertaken, mastly in occasion arose, his Society would the Chinese language, although Eng-ce-operate with the Emergency Isola~ Aish and Russian were also employed.
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