The Archive · 1935

Proposed Health Centre Dr. A. Stampar, Adviser on Public Healih to the Central Government of

'China from the League of Nations. fs now visiting Yunnan in' the interests of the proposed Yunnan Provineial Health Centre. He has had a hearty reception from the: medical community here as well as the Provineial Government and the people generally. Plans for a new hospital as the centre of public health educa~ tion afd work for the province have received on impetus from his visit Simultaneously Drs. Liu, Yao, and Lin are here, having been sent by the Nanking Ministry of Health Investigate health conditions, especially to the so-called "chang chi." In Popular belief, this is a sort of poisonous gas arising from the ground in parts of Kweichow and Yunnan woevinees, causing disease and death Smong the people. Thus far these Investigators" and technicians have found that the cance of the suffering is nothing more than mosquitos earry~ ing malignant malaria. They are still to trace down a few more localities where they are told that "chang chi" prevails.

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