SERUM FOR CHINA.
AUSTRALIAN DONATION.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, September 15. At the request of the Health Department of the . League of Nations. Australia has contributed 500,000 doses of antieholera serum to assist in the fight against the epidemic now raging in China. This contribution is part of a world move in which the total {rifts of serum amounted to (i.00f1.000 doses.
The Commonwealth, in common with the other contributing countries, made the serum (worth about £4000) available without cost to the Chinese authorities. Australia's half-million doses were prepared in unusually quick time as a result of work on Saturday and Sundays by the laboratory staff.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1938, Page 7
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