The Archive · 1940

French Envoy Aids

Free Vaccination — Chinese Students — Against Smallpox — Notice Issued by Council

Aurora University Given Health Centres Assistance Fund; Students The following statement was issued To Be Subsidized by the Shanghai Municipal Council yesterday regarding vaccination moved by the fnanéial against smallpox:—plight of numerous Chinese students The Municipal Council has given following the hostilities, His Exceldency, M. Henri Cosme, French Am-notice that commencing on Monday, October 14, free vaccination against bassador to China, has been examining this situation and, for the past Smallpox, for those who cannot afford their own doctors, will be avail-several years, has personally supportable at the following Branch Health ed students who have been ruined Offices: by the war.

"his year, particularly stirred by Address of Branch the high cost of living and desiring Health Office to do more, he has granted the 340 Hahnkow Road Aurora University a special assistance 3 fund.

'The 'Cosme Fund,' administrated 55°55 by a Committee presided over by the. $32, Ambassador himself or his representative, has granted, for the 1940/41 School year, subsidies to 33 10 at the Faculty of Medicine, 10 at mum 888 &888985 the Faculty of Law, and 13 at the 31

Faculty of Sciences.

Furthermore, the Ambassador has granted each of the faculties at Aurora University the sum of $1,000 to reward the best students.

The presentation of these prizes has been subjected to a special ruling for each of these faculties. Sometimes they will be granted to the students who have the best average marks for their school years, and sometimes following a special examination to be taken during the school term.

Thus, the Faculty of Law has created a prize for Comparative Civil Law, the Faculty of Medicine for Anatomy and Dissection and for medical and observations, surgical etc.

Finally, the Ambassador extended his generosity to Chinese students in Tientsin by granting a subsidy to students of the Institudes Hautes Etudes Industrielles et Commerciales in that city.

(adjoining Market)

Saturday afternoons, holidays and Sundays excepted.

Certificates proving vaccination for local use may be obtained at any of ihe above Branch Health Offices.

Certificates proving vaccination for travellers leaving Shanghai can be obtained from 1 Central Branch Health Office, 340 Hankow Road, only.

Employers of labour may make ar-rougements for the vaccination of their workers by the Mobile Unit on written request to the nearest Branch Health Office, Such arrangements can only apply to those firms wishing a hundred or more employees to be vaccinated at one time, Smallpox vaccine for groups of persons who wish to be vaccinated by their own doctors may be obtained upon written application to the Commissioner of Public Health, *New Life Movement"

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