This introductory statement may perhaps be most fittingly concluded reference to the Congress of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine held in Hanot in December 1938, Thanks are due to Dr. Bernard Read for this brief report of the Congress and this opportunity es taken of thanking him for all he did for the Institute during the Director's absence on leave. It was something of a triumph: to be able to head a delegation of six men and present eleven papers at the end of 'a year during which the Institute was closed' The Congress was attended by 24 persons from 15 countries of the 'Far East, including one delegate from 'Australia. Owing to. the Annual 'Medical Conference usually held in Calcutta at this time no' delegates came to Hanoi from India. Work at the Conference was divided into 12 sections at which 159 papers were presented including 44 from China, Tu fact China sent the largest delega tion and five of its members acted as sectional chairmen, Professor Read chairman of the section of Phar-ud part time in the section Dr. H.C. Hou was. chairman at one of the meetings held the section of Nutrition, Dr. H.
Yu's papers on Cholera were well supplemented by field statistics re~ ported by Dr. RE. Robertson. They Jed to a special round table confer-fence at which recommendations were drawn up and forwarded to the League of Nations and to the coun tries concerned regarding the latest views on the correct dosage and method of administration of Cholera inoculations. Dr. H.C. Hou's papers fon Nutrition and Beriberi were followed by a special meeting at which was resolved to hold at the next Congress a round table conference on nutritional standards in the Far East.
Dr. T.G._Ni's papers on refugee children were well supplemented by 8 report from Hawaii by Dr. Larsen and afforded a good record of actual refugee conditions and what can be done in times of emergency. Dr. Kuang Wu's Parasitology papers were particularly well received, his excel-Tent lantern slides being' the best. shown at the Congress, so much so that he was invited to exhibit them again to the local medical students.
Dr. Stephen Hu's paper on mosquitoes was of special interest to the local Pasteur Institute where Dr. Toumanot conducting work along parallel Read's paper on Chinese fied in with Dr.
report on Indo-Chinese Medicine.
As indicated in the above comments itis clear that the stof of the Institute made a good contribution to ions and of makin contacts with workers try countries the Far East,
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