The station had taken up sanitary engineering work of every deserip~ tion In the field of municipal and rural sanitation,. Various munictpallties such as Nanking, Peiping, Hong. chow, Tientsin and Hankow, had Fequested the assistance of the station In solving their water prob-Jems. Close ce-operation was maintained with the local authorities of Shanghai, Nanking, Nanchang, Kuling. Lanchow, Sian and many other cities inthe Improvement of sanlla~ lon, Including the installation of sewage and draining systems, the dlsinfection of wells, inauguration of modern methods of garbage disposal and fly control, work began in October, 1934, and iwas completed by the end of Dec-lamber last year. Compared with the lfortnight's journey by means of Jdonkey carts, the communication between Sian and Hanchung was short-joned to a three-day Journey.
The third road under construction iwas the Hanchung-Nincheon Highway. about 140 kilometres Tong, link ling "Hanchung with Kwangyuen, in [Szechuen Province, In 1935, the council was made the Inighest national authority for water Jeonservaney administration, and as the first step of this re-organization the council abolished all redundant jconservaney institutions and merged la number of small organizations into Jone. The effect was to place the Jgreater part of such administration jin the hands of the Kuangtung Con lscrvancy Board, the North China Rive: Commission, the Yellow River Commission, the Hwai River Commission and the Yangtze River Commission. These commissions were required by the new regulations to Jsubmit all their projects of expendlture for the approval of the Council.
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