The Archive · 1926

District Nurses

Another department of the Health Demonstration Station deals with public health nursing, with special attention to maternity and children's ease: regular tinies were held in the station each afternoon, when medical men were in attendance. The Department now thas in ite empl eight Chinese nurses, with the a visory services of an Americ public health nurse at its disp These nurses go into the homes of tke people who come to the clinic for advice, ang perform the most practical services. Another important branch of the Station concerns itself with Sanitation and Street Cleaning. Such basic matters the best type of toilet for public convenience of workmen, when there no city sewerage plant with which they can be connected, and when the matter of expense precludes the establishment of separate septic tanks, received the attention of the Station to very good purpose.

It will thus be seen that the Peking Station has been the Iaboratory in which Dr. Hou has obtained [experience which he is now about to put into operation in a much wider. area. The task is no easy one. Muck, will be expected of his administra. tion from the beginning, but it has the good wishes of all.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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