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...sober, mild, bespectacled, almost colorless man named Dr. . George William Bachman was last week very busy in the midst of one of the world's most appalling medical problems-that of China...
Spreading Thin. The American Bureau for Medical Aid to China (now part of United China Relief) is represented in China by Dr. George W. Bachman. Though 52-year-old Dr. Bachman speaks in platitudes ("I am looking out for a way to help the war effort"), he is a topnotch scientist with a talent for organization. From 1918 to 1922 he lived in China, teaching biology at Huping College. When the Bureau sent him to Chungking last April he had for eleven years been director of Columbia University's famed School of Tropical Medicine in Puerto Rico...
Last week Dr. Bachman was working on the first survey ever made of China's whole medical problem. Dr. Bachman's other job is "not to create new projects but to maintain existing ones which are dying from stress, shortages, inflation and war." Since Lend-Lease and the American Red Cross have taken over sending medical supplies to China the Bureau's efforts have been concentrated on three projects: > An Emergency Medical Service Training School at Tuyunkuan, Kweiyang plans to have a branch for each of the nine war areas, has five so far. To the schools...
...assure fair allocation of funds and prompt attention to emergency needs Dr. Bachman has assembled a central committee of high-ranking Chinese and representatives of cooperating American agencies. For 1943 the committee has earmarked $700,000 for the National Health Administration (mostly to give a little more money to almost-starving health officers), $1,300,000 for the training schools, $140,000 each for the medical schools...
...R.C.A. gives 5,000 diameters, G.E. 10,000 (compared to 2,000 useful upper limit in the best microscopes using light waves). Both can be "blown up" photographically to give in effect 100,000 diameters or more. The G.E. instrument, developed by Dr. Simon Ramo and Dr. Charles H. Bachman, has a horizontal system, is 52 inches high, operates on a 110-volt light circuit, The R.C.A. model, only 16 inches long in us optical parts, is the product of work directed by famed television expert, Vladimir Kosma Zworykin...