New York, Apr. 15. The immediate need for $150,000 epidemics in five Chinese provinces has been announced by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, national chairman of the American Bureau for Medical aid to China.
Col. Roosevelt reported the following telegraphic appeal from Dr. Robert K. S. Lin, director of the Medical Corps of the National Red many fronts especially Hupeh, Hunan, Kiangsi, Kwangtung, Kwangsi Needs enor-is }mous. Hope can obtain fifteen million point three-gram tablets quinine, one Million two ce ampoules hydrochloride."
The quantities asked by Dr. Lin were evidence of the scope of the epidemic, Col Roosevelt pointed out. He added that the bureau's chapters im 70 cities had begun to raise their quotas in the $150,000 drive.—Havas.
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