Dr. Jean I. Dow draws attention to the appalling child mortality prevailing independent of famine conditions. The number of cases observed is still too small to form a basis for statistics, but it is nothing uncommon to find a mortality of 66 per cent. without any suspicion of death from other than natural causes.
The fact that the life value of the young child is in China the first to be disregarded, suggested a method by which the Woman's Hospital staff at Changteh could make a contribution to the saving of mothers and infants, namely, by giving to persons certified by authorized agents free treatment and hospital care, including board and clothing, during a seven-day period following—accouchement, with a monthly grant thereafter up to the end of May, 1921, not ex: ceeding $2.50 for mother and child The furnishing of a little—infor-motion, reinforced by the good offices of Mrs. D, MacGillivray, goon elicited from the Chinese and Foreign Famine Relief Society of Shanghai a grant besides smaller sums from—other sources amounting to $700.
Thanks to the American Red Cross Society's timely post-war appropriation the hospital is possession of rolls of material, layettes and other requisites, while cases of children's padded suits and second-hand goods sent from the Women's Famine Relief Committee of Shanghai have provided many necessary comforts, besides home-outfits for the babies.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.