The Archive · 1940

OBITUARIES Mr, Garfield Muang

Shanghai, Mar, 27.

Mr. Garfield Huang, founder and general secretary of the National Anti-Opium Association, who has been rendering important service in the eld of social reform in China for the past fifteen years, died in Shanghai on Mar, 24. His work was '50 successful that several. hundred branch societies of the Anti-Opium Association wore established all over the country. As a result, the National Government finally acceded to popular demand. and organized an [Opium Suppression Commission in Nanking in 1928 with a view to uproot the evils of opium and narcotic Besides his activity as leader in the anti-opium movement, Mr. Huang, together with the late Dr. Fong See, Dr. T. H. Lee, Mrs. P. W. Kuo and others, founded the National Child: Welfare "Association in Shang-Thai and took over the duties as its first general secretary.

Mr. Huang had been suffering from the incurable disease of cancer for several months, and passed away in the Sino-Belgium Radium Institute fon Avenue Joffre on March 24,

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