Among the numerous matters dealt with in last week's Municipal Gazette is one that will undoubtedly arouse interest. among a larg number of the foreign community in the Settlement. Woe refer t the correspondence about the Shanghai General Hospital. From the letters, it will be seen that the Board of Governors have submitted to the Council a copy of rules which, with some alterations, ha been approved and sanctioned, There are many points which arise out of the correspondence, but the most important to the treatment of eases, It would appear stetness do not come within cope of the hospital work. It is pointed out that the Sisters have had no training in midwifery, and that—the hospital is not equipped to deal with such cases. Maternity cases form. inal functions The—question Could not, and ing be done with regard to maternity cases amore the extremely poor class of foreign women? dealing with this subject, be as well to refer to the methods adopted in many places at charitable organizations which provide nurses, and the town or city authorities have generally the exclusive services of medical men at their command. In Shanghai there is no such institution as a nursing organization, and for that reason a very heavy burden is placed upon a fam-
WT ly which cannot afford to pay the charges—reasonuble though they may be—for admission into the maternity hospitals.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.