All Japanese residents of Shanghai, as well as all Chinese and other residents in the areas under the jurisdiction of the Special Municipality of Shanghai, will have to undergo compulsory vaccination against smallpox beginning October 17, the "Shanghai Mainichi" reported yesterday.
This decision was reached by the Japanese Committee for the Prevention of Epidemics in Shanghai at a meeting on Thursday afternoon at the Nippon Club, Boone Road, the daily said.
More^thaa 40 persons attended the committee meeting on Thursday when reports on cholera prevention, the inspection of junks and other vessels plying the Yangtze, Woosung and Soochow creeks for cholera cases, quarantine measures enforced against vessels on the Tsingtao-Shanghai run and future plans to combat the epidemic were made, the newspaper added.
Plans for the" compulsory isolation of typhoid cases as well as the finance ing of such measures were also aired, according to the newspaper. The Committee later was host to more than 100 representatives of several organizations in Shanghai which had helped in the recent successful cholera prevention campaign. Included were the Asia Development Board, the Dojinkai, the various Army clearing hospitals, the Japanese Consulate-General, the Shanghai Special Municipality, the Shanghai Municipal Council, the Maritime Customs, the Japanese Residents' Corporation and others, the Mainichi stated.
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