Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caves and Huts. In Nationalist China there are now about 650 base and front hospitals, many of them in caves and peasant huts, where patients sleep on k'angs (brick ledges). Chungking now contains the National Shanghai Medical College and six first-aid stations built by the American Bureau...
Practically all Dr. Lim's equipment and supplies from the U. S. come through the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, which has some 70 chapters throughout the U. S. Executive chairman of the bureau is Professor Frank Co Tui of New York University's College of Medicine. Last year Dr. Co sent $500,000 worth of supplies to China. Included was a lathe for making wooden legs...
Supplies are sometimes a long time coming, in China. Last month Dr. Lim received equipment and materials for a vaccine plant which the American Bureau had sent a year ago. Dr. Lim now plans to pasture a herd of ponies for serums, manufacture 200,000 doses a day of vaccine for typhoid, cholera, bubonic plague and tetanus toxoid...
...Cross workers labor day & night killing plague-infested rats, purifying water supplies with chlorine, operating delousing stations. In 1938 Dr. Co shipped over a million doses of cholera vaccine to China, thus preventing an epidemic. Last year there was an outbreak of plague in Chekiang, and the bureau rushed vaccines and fumigants to kill germ-bearing rats...
President Conant is amply qualified for his important mission. One of the foremost research chemists in the United States, he served during the last war with the Bureau of Chemistry and the Bureau of Mines. He headed a large staff of men carrying on experiments on the manufacture and effects of poison...