Dr. Wu Lien-teh's Vision of a Better Shanghai The importance of joint efforts by Chinese and foreign public health workers and doctors for the control of disease in Shanghai was emphasized by Dr. Wu Lien-teh, Director of the National Quarantine Service, in a speech delivered in the Henry Lester Institute of Medical Research, 1320 Avenue Road, last. Wednesday afternoon. Dr. Lil. Gordon Thompson was the chair.
That prevention is better than cure was recognized in every community the maintenance of health bureaux, said the lecturer. Preventive mea sures against disease would prove Inadequate in Shanghai, a cosmopo-Mtan city, unless there was co-opera ton between the three separate municipal authorities. Dr. Wu paid a high tribute to the pioneer work of the Shenghai Municipal Council and the French authorities. As far back as 1860, he said, quarantine regulations were promulgated by the Customs tu ce-operation with doctors of the Settlement. wrelgners Set Examp!
Fortunately for the community, the tne work started by foreign doctors China had been enthusiastically allowed by their Chinese confreres, fas shown by the very remarkable achievements by the medical staff of the Public Health Bureau of the City In Shanghai, the diseased most requiring attention, besides the three major ones of plague, cholera, and smallpox, were tuberculosis, mening iis, and veneral diseases. Dr. Wu felt that in Shanghai more than anywhere else the problem of ce-operation in combating disease required the closest study {the maximum results were to be obtained.
To show how well ce-operation between the three separate health thorities had worked in the Aght against cholera, Dr. Wu stated that. uring the past four years, a uniform system of case reporting, vaccination, Jand treatment had been adopted. This resulted in record small mortality Whenever an epidemic occurred. Dr. Wu sis. mentioned. that the health authorities had obtained the co-opera tion of waterworks companies, who supplied cheap and sometimes free water for the poor who were most exposed to cholera.
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