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ID583
NameForeign Markets for Medicinals in China
TitleForeign Markets for Medicinals in China
Year1938
AuthorSmith, A. Viola, Trade Commissioner, Shanghai
CollectionNARA, General records of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (RG151)
Sub collectionRecords Relating to Commercial Attaches' Reports, China (Peiping), 1938, Box 126
Reference NumberEntry 14, Box 126
Repository typeArchive
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Special Report No. S-91. Shanghai, China. May 10, 1938 - 52p + 13p appendix

I. Production - p.1

  1. Non-Proprietary Products
    • Ephedrine
    • List of firms manufacturing pharmaceutical products, with their names, nationality, type of products and turnover
  2. Proprietary or Patent Medicines 
  3. Government Production of biological products
  4. Lists and tables
    • List of medicinal items with their annual volume of production in 1923, 1932, 1933 and 1934) - p.7
    • List of governmental institutions (bureau, laboratories and chemical engineering department) p.8
    • Table showing figures of vaccines produced by Shanghai Municipal Council in 1937 qnd 1938, according to the type of disease

II - Foreign Trade - p.13

  • Imports by four principal countries of origins, according to the type of products - p.14
  • Imports of Chemicals, Medicinals and Pharmaceuticals into China (Exclusive of Manchuria and Hong Kong), by type of items and country of origin, 1933 thru 1937 - p.15-23
  • Exports of Chemicals, Medicinals and Pharmaceuticals from China (Exclusive of Manchuria and Hong Kong), by type of items and country of origin, 1933 thru 1937 - p.24

III - Distribution Promotion - p.33

  • Statistics of the National Health Administration, Nanking, showing medical personnel registered in 1936, according to the type of personnel (number of doctors, pharmacists, midwives, dispensers, dentists, nurses)
  • Drug Stores
  • Pharmacopeia
  • Student Pharmacists and Doctors
  • Pharmacist Regulations
  • Narcotic Drugs
  • Pure Food Laws
  • Patent and Trade-mark registration
  • Prevalent Diseases
  • Hospital Accomodations
    • Statistics of the National Health Administration, Nanking, showing hospitals registered in 1936 (number of hospitals, physicians, nurses, beds)
    • Comparison of Balm's Survey, 1919 and Snell's Survey, 1933
  • Forms of Medication
  • Prevalent Diseases

Appendix

  • Trade Opportunities - A
  • Trade List - A
  • List of Associations Publishing Journals - B-C
  • Confidential Notes - D
  • Sources of information - E
  • Tentative Regulations Governing Pharmacists (Pormulgated on January 15, 1929, by Nanking Governement) - 4p
    • Chapter I - General
    • Chapter II - Qualifications
    • Chapter IV - Duties
    • Chapter V - Penalties
    • Supplementary Regulations 
  • Shanghai Association of Chinese Wester Medicine Merchants - 16 Lung Men Road, Shanghai, China - 2p
    • A. General 
    • B. Membership
    • C. Functions
    • D. Meeting
    • E. Membership Dues
    • F. Supplementary Articles
  • Shanghai Association of Chinese Wester Medicine Merchants and Guilds - Passed November 10, 1935 - 2p 
    • A. General 
    • B. Functions
    • C. Membership
    • D. Organization
    • E. Meeting
    • F. Membership Dues 
    • G. Supplementary Articles
Comment

Records Relating to Commercial Attaches' Reports, China (Peiping), 1938, Box 126, folder "Foreign Service - Copies of Reports - Peiping - 1938 - May", p.2-67

Note: the report emphasizes differences between Chinese and US classifications systems, observing that the Chinese Maritim Customs classifications do not lend themselves to an analysis corresponding to the United States Statistcal Export Schedules. 

 

Keywordsreport ; commercial attache ; special ; Beijing ; Shanghai ; medicine ; market ; classification ; production ; trade ; regulation ; trademark ; disease ; health:association ; journal ; guild ;
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