Officer in Harbin, Dr. Chen received an invitation from the Ministry of the Interior to the Government Isolation Hospital, the first of its kind in the country. A large number of infectious cases have been cared for, since its organization which would have otherwise been at large and been the means of spreading infection, perhaps with fatal results, to many more. During the floods in the autumn of 1917, and when the danger of epidemic outbreaks was threatening on account of the presence of large numbers of refugees in Tientsin, H. E. Hsiung Hsi-ling, Director-General of Flood Relief, appointed Dr. Chen to be his Chief Medical Officer of Health. As a result of Dr. Chen's preventive measures no outbreak of epidemic disease occurred. In the outbreak of pneumonic plague in Shansi in 1918, Dr. Chen was one of the three commissioners appointed by the government to cope with the situation. In June 1919 Dr. Chen was appointed Principal Medical Expert of the Ministry of the interior still holding the position of director of the Peking Government Isolation Hospital. In October 1921, Dr. Chen was conferred the Second Order of Chiaho, in December 1921, the Second Order of Tacho Chiaho; and in June 1922, the 4th Order of Wenfu.
