part. He said that while China exported many
articles to Great Britain she also imported many
articles from that country and there appeared to me
to be a veiled hint that if the home authorities
were not prepared to accept the Bureau's certificates
restrictions might be placed on the import of food
stuffs from Great Britain.
I said to Dr. Huang that our regulations applied
to all countries from which food-stuffs were imported
and not to China alone: I also said that I believed
the health authorities of every country reserved the
right to examine imports of food-stuffs whether
accompanied by a certificate from the country of
origin or not. In this, I may have been wrong but
I was endeavouring to pave the way for a possible
solution of the problem.
I consulted Dr. Noel Davis and Dr. Jordan of
the Shanghai Municipal Council Health Department and
found that while they had no information regarding
the Bureau they did not have a very high opinion of
Dr. Wang. The latter, they said, was accepted by
the Council as a qualified veterinary surgeon for the
purposes of inspecting Chinese dairies, but they had
had trouble with him some little time ago in regard
to certain tubercular cows which he had failed to
report. Dr. Jordan said he could not believe that
there was a qualified veterinary surgeon at each of
the slaughter-houses which Dr. Wang referred to in
his
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