Abstract
In the 1930s, a massive cholera prevention movement was carried out by the three Shanghai public health authorities (belonging to the International Settlement, the French concession and the Shanghai city government respectively). The movement was part of the collaboration between the League of Nations Health Organization (LNHO) and the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China, and the main goal was mass inoculation. This paper examines the steps which made the government possible and the way it characteristics of public health administration, especially in the International Settlement and Shanghai City. The analysis shows that from the late 1920s, the political relations between the three health authorities were in a delicate state. However, Ludwick RAJCHMAN, the LNHO delegate, encouraged each authority, and finally they agreed to cooperate in the prevention movement. Even so, the International Settlement and Shanghai City differed over how to prevent cholera. The attitudes of each authority in carrying out the movement reflected both such differences and differences in the legal systems of the three districts.
