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"""CHAPTERXXVIITHE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF CHINAWay Sung NewOfficers for J9J6-J917.YVn Lien-Teh, M.A., M.I). (Cambridge) President.0. Voonping Yui, M.D. D.IMI., (IVnn.) Vice-president.S. T. Lee, M.I)X. Alx-l Taiiji ,Chinese Secretary.M.J>\Vay Sunii New, I>.A., .M.I). (Harvard). HInglish Secretary.K. S. Tyau. M.D.. D.IMI. (I enn.) Treasurer.I>r. T. K. M. Siao I>usiness Manager., . While attending the biennial conference ofthe China Medical Missionary Association inFebruary 11)15, some twenty Chinese physicians expressedIlie need of forming a similar organization of a nationalcharacter. Accordingly the National Medical Associationof China was formed, whose chief objects are:1. To promote good will and union aimmji the Chinese pi aetilionersof western medicine;2. To maintain the honour and interest of the medical profession:. !. To expedite the spread of modern medical science in Chinaand to arouse interest in public health and preventive medicineamoiiii the people and;4. To co-ordinate and co-operate with the existing medical forcesin China, Chinese and foreign, in the working out of the above{or Hardly any word is necessary to explain^ie neet^ i SUCn anOrganizationorganization. At thepresent time there is no registration ofphysicians, which makes it next to impossible to know who swho and why in the medical world here in China. As aresult of this, a great number of persons have called themselves "doctor and have been swindling the people everywhere. Then again, there is no registration of drug storesselling western medicine. The so-called druggists takeadvantage of this condition and sell without discriminationvarious dangerous and habit-forming drugs to the people.