CO129-565-8 British Medical aid for China- sponsered by League of Nations 14-10-1937 - 5-1-1938 — Page 13

(F 11625/167/10)

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FOREIGN OFFICE, S. W. 1.

RECEIVED

5th January, 1938.

C - JAN 1978

C. O. REGY

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My dear Gent,

In Foreign Office letter No. F 10777/167/10, of

the 17th December last, we promised to send a further

communication to the Colonial Office as soon as we knew

the names of the remaining members of the British unit

to be sent out to China by the League of Nations for

anti-epidemic work.

We have now heard unofficially from Dr.Rajchman

through Mr. Goodman of the Ministry of Health, that, in

default of British experts in epidemiology with

experience in collaboration with national health

services, Dr. Robertson has asked for two Austrians to

be attached to his unit, one a Dr. R. Pollitzer, chief

Technical Adviser of the Chinese National Quarantine

Service, who is an Austrian bacteriologist with some

twenty-five years experience in China on plague and

G. E.J. Gent, Esq., D.S.O., 0.B.E.

cholera/