Views of Harbin (Fuchiatien) taken during the plague epidemic, December 1910-March 1911 /
with the compliment of the Chinese Plague Commission.
Description
- Language(s)
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English ; Chinese
- Published
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Shanghai : Printed at the Commercial Press, [1911]
- Summary
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"From December 1910 to March 1911 there was in Manchuria-the name given by foreigners to northeastern China-an epidemic of pneumonic plague that ultimately cost nearly 50,000 lives. An immediate consequence of this epidemic was the convening in Mukden (Shen-yang) of the 'International Plague Conference', in April 1911, at which experts from Austria-Hungary, China, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia and the USA participated. Welcoming the delegates, Hsi kiang, the Viceroy of the Emperor of China, conceded that while traditional Chinese medicine had been 'found to be serviceable for many ailments it was of no avail against plague. We feel that the progress of medical science must go hand in hand with the advancement of learning, and that, if railways, electric light, and other modern inventions are indispensable to the material welfare of this country, we should also make use of the wonderful resources of Western medicine for the benefit of our people.' At the conference the Chinese Plague Commission presented delegates with a printed album of 'Views of Harbin'-a town some 200 miles NNE of Mukden. ... One of the delegates at the conference was D. Zabolotny, Chief of the Russian Commission for Plague Investigation in China, who was also a delegate to the International Sanitary Conference of 1911-1912, at which he described his findings during the Chinese epidemic."--The scientific background of the International Sanitary Conferences by Norman Howard-Jones, WHO, 1975. p. 94
- Note
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Introduction signed: Wu Lien Teh.
Presented to the members of the International Plague Conference, Mukden, 1911 "with the compliments of the Chinese Plague Commission."
- Physical Description
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61 plates :
illustrations ;
20 x 26 cm
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