MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE ABSTRACTS OF UNEVALUATED INFORMATION

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• Publication Date: August 1, 1951

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MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE ABSTRACTS
OF
WaVALUATta) INFORMATION
CIA/SI 25.19-51
1 August 1951
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1. Hospitals Moved From Large Seaport Cities to Mountains of
Chekiang PFORrice, niina.
During June 1951 Chinese Communist
authorities started moving hospitals from
the lenchou and Linhai (121-07, 28-53)
areas to a mountainous area in north
Chekiang.
ANALYSTTS COMMENTt
Papulation of lenchau alone is more
than 630,000
only 60,000.
.There is the Probable use of hospital compounds as
barracks, living quarters and office space for military units.
These units would undoubtedly have mobile field hospital units
and mobile aid stations attached to various commands,
2. Overtaxed .Chinese Medical (Personnel, Materiel, and Hospital)
BTI6 No. 138,
Hong Kong
10 July 1951
(Heald 26 July 5))
shrines in uanton were being
converted into temporary hospitals to
accommodate Wounded soldiers from Korea.
Trainloads of wounded stream into Canton
daily and
capacity.
ANALYSTIS COMMENT
An
analysis indicate the breakdown of medical
facilities in ana near we combat zone, which is the most
important area for the treatment of wounded personnel. This
breakdown is further evidenced by sending non-military trained
medical personnel to supplement medical personnel in the combat
zone as well as to investigate passible shortcomings and report
to the Central Government. The conversion of religious shrines,
as well as the direct declaration that there is no space avail-
able in any of the hospitals under command of the Central and
South China Military Area, 1.ndicates the strain on available
facilities. Furthermore, the smallpox outbreaks
are also a reasonably conclusive indicator of the breakdown in
medical facilities.
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3. Increased Production of Rubber Medical Equipment'in
SovZone Germany.
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1 March 1951 the people-owned Rubber
orks in Berlin/Weissensee will start
roduction of catheter, throat, and
stomach tubes in quantities sufficient
to cover the requirements of hospitals and doctors in the Ger-
man Democratic Republic; item appeared in Berlin, Bachrichten
flier Aussenhandel, 24 Feb Si.
ANALYST'S COMMENTt (1) The items
mentioned are of considerable importance in carrying out
medical functions by the home and office practitioner, in
the hospital and in the laboratory. (2) This may indicate
another step in the development of an industry that will
not only take care of the needs of Germany, but with the
German technical and industrial knowhow may well produce
sufficient for Soviet stockpiling as well as for export.
(3) This is the first indication of the development of this
phase of production; however, recent information tends to
show increasing productivity in all fields of manufacturing
of medical and scientific equipment.
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