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318 MEDICAL AND PHILANTHROPIC WORKThe innocent people are thus exposed to all kinds of dangers.It is one of the aims of this Association to exposeJill theseTakes and dangers, thus protecting the public.Medicine is at present taught in China inleast iree foreignStandardizinglanguages besides?*. .Schools Chinese. The standards of the differentmedical schools vary widely, some having a,competent staff of teachers with good hospital facilities andlaboratories, and others having only one or two teachers,with no laboratories and perhaps with hospitals or dispensaries where there is plenty of teaching material but no onewith time to do thorough teaching. The standardizing ofthe different medical schools is therefore one of the aims ofthe Association.Then mostPublic Health important of all is the teaching, IT- , , i iof the public in matters of: public health andhygiene. As it stands now, their idea about both of thesesubjects is very limited and inadequate. The medical menas a body must see to it that Hie public is educated in thismatter. The doctors must lecture to the lay people whenever they have a chance to do so, and the children must betaught in their classes the fundamental principles underlying the important subject of hygiene. Only in this way canwe hope to eliminate or lessen the dreadful loss of life everyyear from infectious diseases, tuberculosis, and venerealdiseases. This the Association hopes to be able to do iutime by having wide-spread campaigns.Such, then, is the brief outline of the programme of thisAssociation. It is undoubtedly a very great undertaking,but the start has got to be made by some one sometime, andwe might as well start off now. We appreciate very muchthe efforts which other associations of this nature aredoing for China and the Chinese, and we must look toour sister associations for their assistance, wise counsel andleadership.. .r The Association had its tirst conference in(First Co aierence . . ,,. ,, r.,,, ion inirShanghai from February to <th12th, 1916.This turned out to bo mast successful both socially andprofessionally. About eighty members from different parts1of China cam; specially for the conference, during which

theTPIE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OP CHINA 319very intructive papers on various important topics wererend, nnd discussions followed afterwards. At the closeof tiie conference, the following resolutions were passed andwere forwarded to the Central Government:1. That ill view <>fincreasing number of practitioners ofwestern medicine and of drug shops selling western medicine throughout the country, and of the need of protecting the public againstunscrupulous persons, this Conference petition the Central (Government to take proper steps for the registration of practitioners ofwestern medicine and of drug shops selling foreign medicine.2. That in view of the increasing number of medical collegesand graduates, from those institutions in China, and of the importanceof placing all medical practitioners under direct government supervision, this Conference request the Government to establish a Central.Medical Board in .Peking, consisting of representatives from theGovernment and principal medical institutions, with powers to MXthe curricula of ^Medical Schools to grant licenses and toexaminations throughout the country.supervise. {. That owing to the unchecked spread of tuberculosis andvenereal diseases among all classes of the population, this Conferencedraw the attention of the Central and Provincial Governments to theneed of taking proper steps to combat these evils.4. That in view of the importance of public health to thenation, this Conference respectfully urge the Government to establisha Public Health Service without delay throughout the country.o. That in view of the absolute need of modern medicine toChina and of the sympathetic support of so many foreign lands in theintroduction of medical science among our people, this Associationpetition the AVai Chiao Pu and the lioard of Education for an annualgrant of at least ten scholarships to students of medicine from theIndemnity Kund.Passed ..Thus we see that with the small beginning,and with the support r and assistance of ourJsister.,organizations, we shall hope to he ableto carry out our objects as time goes along.

318 MEDICAL AND PHILANTHROPIC WORKThe innocent people are thus exposed to all kinds of dangers.It is one of the aims of this Association to exposeJill theseTakes and dangers, thus protecting the public.Medicine is at present taught in China inleast iree foreignStandardizinglanguages besides?*. .Schools Chinese. The standards of the differentmedical schools vary widely, some having a,competent staff of teachers with good hospital facilities andlaboratories, and others having only one or two teachers,with no laboratories and perhaps with hospitals or dispensaries where there is plenty of teaching material but no onewith time to do thorough teaching. The standardizing ofthe different medical schools is therefore one of the aims ofthe Association.Then mostPublic Health important of all is the teaching, IT- , , i iof the public in matters of: public health andhygiene. As it stands now, their idea about both of thesesubjects is very limited and inadequate. The medical menas a body must see to it that Hie public is educated in thismatter. The doctors must lecture to the lay people whenever they have a chance to do so, and the children must betaught in their classes the fundamental principles underlying the important subject of hygiene. Only in this way canwe hope to eliminate or lessen the dreadful loss of life everyyear from infectious diseases, tuberculosis, and venerealdiseases. This the Association hopes to be able to do iutime by having wide-spread campaigns.Such, then, is the brief outline of the programme of thisAssociation. It is undoubtedly a very great undertaking,but the start has got to be made by some one sometime, andwe might as well start off now. We appreciate very muchthe efforts which other associations of this nature aredoing for China and the Chinese, and we must look toour sister associations for their assistance, wise counsel andleadership.. .r The Association had its tirst conference in(First Co aierence . . ,,. ,, r.,,, ion inirShanghai from February to <th12th, 1916.This turned out to bo mast successful both socially andprofessionally. About eighty members from different parts1of China cam; specially for the conference, during which

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