ing on this subject yesterday morning, a correspondent asks if it would not be possible for maternity nurses from America to be invited to Shanghai, and then take in European women to work under them and learn the art of obstetrics. That is one suggested remedy, and two others have been suggested to us.
The first is that the Municipal Council should provide a maternity nurse for the extremely poor cases, who could visit the patients in their own homes, some arrangement, ut the same time being made with local medical men, The ideal way, however, would seem to be the provision of a lying-in hospital, for, as was pointed out, in many cases it is extremely desirable to have the patients removed from, not infrequently, rather sordid surroundings. The patients could be looked after by the maternity nurse, and proper and careful treatment would thereby be certain The work would not necessarily have to be on a large scale, but there certainly are numerous cases which demand something of the kind being done.
Objections can, of course, levelled against such a scheme, as against almost every scheme. But there appears to be no real reason why with a community such as is in Shanghai, a crying need could not be met, and that great deal of expense, Beg to announce that the
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