Dr. Arthur Stanley, Health Off-cer of Shanghai, contributed Paper on "How to initiate Public Health work in Chinese cities."" The first essential, he said, was some form of authority controlling finance, staff appointments, and general policy, such as a municipal council. The second essential was a health officer, upon whom practically all organization and responsibility should devolve. In view of the fact that the initiation of public health work in China is a matter for the future, Dr. Stanley indicated the qualities which made an effi cient health officer, remarking that he should be independent of local patronage and not subservient to interests.
Having obtained an efficient public health administration, the next essential was the necessary power to enforce the requirements of sanitation. Then followed the question of finance, the opinion being given that, speaking generally, the annual appropriation for public health work in a Chinese city should not exceed Tis, 0.50 a head of the population, and half of this should be got from the sale of refuse, and market and other fees.
Offic: accommodation and ap-Paratus of sanitation, was the next question dealt with, followed by that of the staff, which, where possible, should in the near future be wholly Chinese. The main thing in China, the paper concluded, would appear to be to prevent waste of effort and to direct energy into the right channels on there measures which mean most.
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