Some time ayo this journal brought to the fore the desirability of estab-fishing some form of compulsory registration in Shanghai, the lent voluntary lby the Shanghai municipal Council being qui equate to prevent. the abuses which compulsory ve-Jgistration "removes. Shanghai shares with Persia the unenviable distinction of being perhaps the Jonly places in the eivlised world where men or women can give ter in dealing with the general question of registration, in China.
refers to this journal's campaign in the following passage—Agyone, in fact, with or wi a cctor'e diploma," with, or. with criminal, record, cam. hang out Pheumatism to cross eyes, and British frauds and charlatans' of all] kinds, but mone reve greater menace The community them creatores who prey sua sutoring. "The Mr, Touty, in m letter published clewhere, shows that Shanghai can-
been not unfairly called "charlatan unenviable at has, its
ism" "In other' words Persia definite rules for compulsory reation of doctors. The quotation made yesterday from the "People's Tribune" which x0 forcefully condemned the present conditions under which any quack can call himself a doctor in Shanghai and Ucoretical place himeelf on a. level with favalifed practitioners "has been ly noted by more than roused in fact considerable interest. The way in which ome of these unqualified medical men can prey on the public here is exeditaole neither to Une good sense of Shanghai nor to the authorities the metéat sophitiry. The old hag English y-Sage, with her magic charm fork arts, may some: times tumble accidentally upon what lauded ax a "cure." It she Ventuved to set tinct? practice oF to describe herself "7. doctor steps would "be pro ken to discourage such lo to keep this subject alive for it closely concerns the welfare lof every citizen in Shanghai.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.