TRENDS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: April 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSfFiCATION t~0?1FIIfEfi1T.4L?
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
1911EORMATIOM REPORT
Soviet btedicel Services, Tihwa, Sinkia~ 1946
1? In June 1946 Chinese Coa~uaists in Sinkiang ied b;; Soviet citizens tried to?~
overthrow the Nationalist provincial. government (the Elee Rebellion . The rebels
were put down and Soviet leaders promised Governor Chin Tzu-Chung (who con-
eietent worked for a wedding cP Nationalist-Communist interests in the
province that they k~uld withdr:,w from political activity in Sinkiang. It was
merely a au:?face withdrawal.
2. A result of the rebellion+ change of staff at Tihwa~s municipal
hospital. 1t was Chinese-administered and
statfed~ b e e o? a retie 'on it had been Soviet-edminietered.
3? Thr, Soviet wAininiutration heed trained Chin~ae CNmauniat medical peregnnel tqr
hospital work "on the ,fob" without benefit of academic lssatruotion aid in the
following manger: (i.) vauag men and wgmea were hired ae nurses' aides; (2)
after s little e~eriences eomr. of these were pramflted to nurses; (3) soma of
the nurses became doctorst aides; (4) the beet doctoret aides become d^atora.
These l,aet. could diagnose and o_aerate ae they pleased.
4. When the Soviet administration left the hospital a clinic was set up az ?.re
Soviet Consulate in Tiawa and pravineiels were enticed to go there for tree
medication end sometimes m`ney fur "needed nourishment?"
5? Under Chinese pram{n;etratiou the hospital had 100 beds' 30 of these in the
Psychiatric ward; a good (~' imita+.ion; 4oviet-made %-rqy machine; and aeyeral
Ford imitation; Soviet-made aut.omobi:~ea with poor quality pneumstic tireAl
Critical hospital poste were limitsd to competent medical Pxrsonnel.
Medical Research - 1940-1948
6? ThSTr. wd3 ~rery little ree4,c:.rch done (1) because of a lack of trained helps (2)
be~ease people (inclttdina scientistai were hungry and anxious (3) because
Western research publications were nc~t available. Publications
World War II were often microfilmed and
ordinary t.and ffegII3.f~r3ng glass.
paper.
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7. Drxing `hip period ~clii.r~l. activa.ty was confined to the asual fighting of anima.? and
human infectinue diseases. In i94j in Sze~~h~asn Pxovince there was a sizeable anti-
r:aYnderpept campaigns an3 anfii-_,chistosomiasig efforts in the Yangtze Rivar Valleys
begun in 193Qs were carded nn. There was a widespread rumor during World War II
that large numbers oP HI'" ?. tnto streams in
to swim became infected with sci~iyt:osomeg. angtze reg_on to learn
an at,.ti~schietosamlasis research station tc ee or detai:~ed account of
1951,) s ed at Szewuis Kwangtung in
@uali't~r o_ ~ I~dio+-7. ReRes.rch Sinro 1~1+R
8? ~i-n~~e bs:t trained reRPa;rchers i7 medical and vela+,ed fields are men
not likely to wa.n+ to cooperate with the Communists a~7,trpr Past their primes
beesuse o.Y Pear. s king at reduced efficiency
9. Younger mans trained. under the idatiun!~l.iat regimes axe goad reaearahere and aces
perhapes wining to coopr>rste with. the ':o~uniets.
ogists becaua~ there a;?e always more m~*_~ in thin ~,Y of these would be bacteriol-
in the medical range. specieltlr in China than in airy other
10. In 1,949 there were shout 10 thousand Western trained MDts in all Chine,. an~,y a aauaLl
percentage of +hig Hashers as here in the U3~ woul,d have an inclissation to research.
Those who do would have t'he nedeesary basic craYn'ing. It may be of same importance
that: cver the years: a signifYeant num;er - not a majority - of US trained Chineea
medirsl man c9me to the US with a neutral attitudes, returned to China with an anti-U$
Peeling.,. ,
11. Reaeerrk~ ~auipment wwy:d be ni,+,.,st entire',
I terl that 3cviet~mad Y imported and ie probably in a$ort stg~p].y.
%_ray my;h~e be interiors but the Soviet-made
s a good,tiH imitation.
Ps hiat - 1 ~ -1 51 ,
1.2, In 1947 the Nstianal Necu~o;sy~hiatric Institute wse touaded in Naaking as an e~tper~ent.
It wne s~parted by the Mir..,ary of 'Se91~:h.
13? 'Ptse Tnetitute hoepitel had 100 brfls and a basic etas! of l0 NID~s (payohiatrists)s two
peyehologietr.s three social workers. The World Eealth Organization (WHO) Rrovided an
additiensl P~ychiatriet are' one peychiatrir. nurse.
ly' ~' s tuts Gave psychiatric trretayent to s.7.1 comeras but its spacial pro~eot
ua3 detrrtaining tbq Hormel behavior pattern cf ohildrew for each yoar of 11te
tc ?5 yhars of egr. We had ~slen*?ed 90 "aat~.l" ohiZdxas and had oolleatod some 9wts
on Behaviors intelligence devtilopment sad ptLveiq~l health -
I fled the maiNatad. Actually, from tht beginning of tha ~~ e' ya~r ~ work ~ +!hea
mooQ to aoccsgl;,,ish mums. Praaeat sane aY ua itaa S.1 es
16. m~ostly~aer~tien~auzdlrecord ker e~~ because it was inexpensive to,pursue~ involving
P~g? Paychamsetrio and other teatiag ffiter3ala ware
rade at the Tnetitute sad . vhat i t t~~ a s....aY...-. _-- --
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Research Polic Makers in Coumnunist Ctxinss
Health but it was us - --~ .ti ~~~~""`u ~ n`~n'rA-='-+4 set by the ~Itnis oP
u$11y guided_'by.people with a Peking IIaion Medical College con-
nection. Infectious diseases dominated the public health program.
Co~~ China's Future Researchers
20. With respect t0 the training of aew people,.
accelerated training will hurt research.
t2eaearah and Research ,prPay
3chistoeomiasie
Fukien Province. In 194E:k7 there were i~0
plague specialists in Fukien.
Yangtze River Valley
Kalazar (a protozoan disease Research would be centered
endemic to regions-south of geuchow (goochow)~ Kiangsu p by~~~at
the Yellow River)
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