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Consequences of the Military events on Sanitary Organisation.
It is difficult to realise to what extent the organisation described above has been modified during the last months by military events.
The Japanese military occupation of Peiping, Tientsin and a part of Shanghai obviously hampers the sanitary authorities of these cities in the carrying out of their functions. Similarly, the occupation of Tangku- Taku prevents the quarantine Station there carrying out its work.
We know, however, that the health services of the Municipality of Greater Shanghai, as well as that of the French and International Settlements in that city, have continued, and even increased their activity with regard to cholera particularly.
In Nanking, where the staff of the central services remained at their posts, one may deplore the fact that the Central Field Health Station and the Central Hospital were attacked by Japanese aeroplanes on September 25th, and that they had to be evacuated after being partially destroyed by 15 bombs. The Station had also, as indeed on similar occa- sions in the past, to give its help in organising sanitary control of refugees and troops, to the detriment of its normal' work.
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