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...Canton, a city of nearly 1,000,000, there was only one foreign doctor to fight the epidemic: Frank H. Herrington, who resigned from the U.S. Navy last fall to join UNRRA. He diagnosed 162 cases of cholera, watched the fatality rate climb to 50%. Canton lacked cholera vaccine, the distilled water and apparatus to give intravenous saline solutions as part of the prescribed treatment for cholera patients...
Faced with this crisis, Herrington flew to Shanghai, wangled 200,000 doses of cholera vaccine from UNRRA supplies and local labs. Additional vaccine for 1,000,000 persons was promised, planes chartered to speed chlorine for Canton's polluted water system. Unless the anti-epidemic supplies arrived promptly, Herrington estimated that more than 1,000 Cantonese would die of cholera in the next few weeks. It was not his first bout with cholera. Last summer, while surgeon for the U.S. Embassy in Chungking, he had helped to stop a cholera epidemic in China's temporary capital...
Living Legend. At 41, Frank Herrington, a hefty (198 lbs.), lighthearted medic, is a famed old China hand. When Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times was in Chungking, he described Herrington's reputation as "stupendous." Like many a U.S. country doctor, Herrington ministered to rich & poor alike; paid for treatment of a ricksha boy out of his own pocket, carried a gold watch inscribed...
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Most of the staff have taken graduate work and Harvard hydrographers co-operate with the bureau from time to time. The main reason for the government service's location near the University is to make possible ready access to the Harvard Fisheries Library, which Herrington rates "best in this part of the country...