The first meeting of the Home Economics Department of the American Women's Club for the season was held at the house of Mrs. W. W. Peter, 90 Route de Say Zeng, on Wednesday. The Chairman, Mrs. N. F. Allman, presiding. 'The speaker of the day, Dr. W. W. Peter, Director of the Counil' on Health Education, speaking on "Health Problems of China," briefly outlined the growth of an international public "health—consciousness, He said that while the West had developed government] health agencies, China lacked such assistance except for the Plague Pre-Yention Bureau of N. China and Manchuria, under the direction of Dr. Wa Lien-teh. This Bureau maintained 13 hospitals, stretching {from North China down' to Tientain and received an appropriation of 465,000 each year from Customs receipts.
Procens of sterilization is slow, and wveyard prevents expansion. The
patrons complained in hot weather that their water did not flow freely. One of the coolies also grew imhurried proceedings by breaking larger hole in the filter, so that the rater flowed more freely, also the cholera germs.
This was not discovered for some time as the plant was not inst gularly. In the Municipal water: works the filtration plant and the faucet as well are inspected daily, Dr. Peter closed his lecture with] the injunction that every foreigner should be 2 volunteer health agent, as unless the native population educated in this respect no one's life was safe. Av mothers have the care of the home and training of children in health standards, the speaker asserted that the health of China rested the hands mothers.
The Peking Government had indeed appointed a committee on Public Health, continued Dr. Peter, but its efforts stopped with translate, {ing into Chinese the works of West fern health authorities. The most hopeful indication is that the students are roused to health conditions and are trying to bring about a more active health organization. A new health department in Peking under Dr. Grant of the Peking Union Medical Office has been granted $27,000 for its work from the Government. In 1921 Dr. 8. M. Woo, head of the School Hygiene Depart: ment of the Council on Health Education, was invited to come to Canton to head the department of Public Health in its new commission government and $187,000 was allotted him. Little of the money was ever raised, however, and various complications forced Dr. Woo into returning to Shanghai.
Before the war broke out a year jaga, a delegation from the Native City government conferted with Dr. Woo with a view to establishing a Health Department similar to that} fu the Settlement and Concession but the outbreak of hostilities halted the action. The great need for such "Hanotn." despite all conjectures the name might suggest, is a she and a leopard. During one of his noonday constitutionals, Mr. A. M. Preston was attracted toa very mall box carried by some cadiies and from which was coming strange noise rather resembling the mote of a Elaxon horn reproduced.
a gramophone with a worn needle. Investigation revealed four enormous fect and a very big head with the most appealing baby-blue eyes, mounted on a tiny body, the whole representing a leopard which ought not to have been separated from its mother. With a shrewd notion as to the possible future of Harold, Mr. Preston there and then bought it. Mrs. Preston thought there were equally hectic Possibiljties for the family's dogs, Birds, carp, ete., not to mention that Haroid's coat is not quite 20 sweet the foundling's present disposition, Hence the guardianship, with due ko formality, was trans-Terral to Mr. De Masireggr, and now Harold gambols in 4 brand new cage in the Jessfield Zoo, end for the moment, in the-eyes of fine all the world, Younger Shanghai, is the'best thing]
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