Nanking, May 31.
Interviewed concerning the bubonic plague situation in Fukien, Dr. J. Hong Liu, Director of the National Health "Administration, pointed out mule plague has been pro-Fulkien for several decades, most every year. This year the epidemic was more severe, More than. ten districts have been ceted, mostly along the coast. inning, Dr. Liu said that, a¢- cording to oficial records, 4,000 people have died of the disease this year. 'As a matter of fact, the deaths pro-ably exceed 10,000, as numerous ceases. must have been' unreported in the rural areas.
Dr, Liu said that, as the result of his conversations with General Chen Ys, Chairman of the Fukien Provinciat Government, a five-year programme for the total eradication of bubonic plague in Fukien has been decided According to this programme, pre" ventive bureaux will be established northern, southern, and western Fukien. Special efforts will be made to exterminate the rats which are directly responsible for the plague; isolation hospitals will also. established for the treatment of ents, One of the reasons why bubonic plague Is so prevalent in Fukien, ho Said, is because there are too many potato farms in Fukien. Rats cat sweet palatees and thrive even in the fields, Dr. Liu spent four days last week In Fukien conferring on the plague prollem—Kuo Min.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.