Geneva, Feb. 2.
The committee for technical collaboration between the League of Nations and China has received information on the present situation regarding the assistance extended to China to combat epidemics, On the strength of the Swiss Frs. 2,000,000 voted by the Assembly of the League, doctors have been sent to China, their destinations being Nanning, Changsha and Sian, under the direction of Drs, Lasnet of France, Moser of Switzerland and R. C. Robertson of Great Britain, They will make contact with Dr, Borcig now in China, and with hygiene advisers of the Chinese Government, will form an epidemics commission to coordinate the work of the different units, These units will operate under the direction of the Chinese authorities, Each will be composed of a commissary for epidemics, a sanitary engineer and mobile pharmaceutical section, with a bacteriologist, a foreign doctor, a motor car, two am-balances, ten lorries, a Chinese doctor, several chauffeurs and personnel with equipment and material The League Secretariat has accepted the following assistance for the work: The Danish Government offered 5,000 doses of anti-tetanus serum and a million units of antidiphtheria serum; The Danish Red Cross has promised 10,000 doses of anti-tetanus and two million of antidiphtheria; The Secretary General of the Lord Mayors Fund has sent clothing and provisions to Dr. R, C. Robertson; the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Ca, has agreed to carry merchandise to China free and the Messageries Maritimes has offered a fifty per cent, reduction in fares to members travelling in its ships; the Netherlands Government has also offered aid in the sum of Fi, 50,000.
Havas,
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