There is a story of the Sisters of the Misericordia at Venice (if we have told it before we apologize to those who remember it). Being uninfluenced in their admirable work by any consideration of creed, infection and so forth, they announced the fact on the front of their hospital in several languages. And the English one read—till some dull ass pointed out the mistake:—'The Sisters of the Misericordia harbour every kind of disease and have no respect for religion." One is reminded of this in reading our medical _correspondent's article on the conference that is taking place this week in Peking and the emphasis he lays on the fact that a medical missionary is before all' things a doc-for. The conference is not, we take it, concerned with ways and means.
Tts discussions (according to programme) deal mostly with such subjects as "cytological—reinvestigations on the somatic cells of Ascaris with special reference to mitochondvia" (we have no idea what that means). But it is undoubtedly for laymen to bethink them what these medical missions mean and what incalculable harm will result, from any diminution of their work for want of money. It is useless to expect adequate help from China, where. outside a few big towns, even Chinese doctors can make but the meagre st living. American medical missions seem to vet_all they want. It is for the British to see that their's do not lag behind.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.