Only small proportion of cases of tuberculosis attend the hospitals and even for this small number the accommodation is inadequate. The problem is aggravate ed by the fact that poverty compels most of the patients to remain at their work as long as possible, thus greatly increasing the field of infection. In this respect, the Chinese are probably more of a danger than the class for which the hospital is specially proposed, and thie is a side of the question to which serious attention must sooner or later be given.
In this connexion, the community is indebted to the Medical Conference, recently held at Shanghai, for the excellent health exhibition organized under its auspices. It was principally intended for Chinese, and was in fact visited by a great number of them. In many simple and striking ways, element tary principles of hygiene and sanitation were illustrated, and it in to be hoped that the ex! tion may be followed up by similar demonstrations in various districts of Shanghai. Such an educational campaign is greatly needed, and would be invaluable. A certain amount of educational work is already being done by the Health Office, but more is needed. The time will come when the establishment of a tuberoulosie hospital for Chinese will be a matter of necessity, if only from motives of self-protection, but for the present, the needs of the poor and the " eubmerged tenth" among the foreign population must be met.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.