A pien for a campaign of public health education in China was made by Dr. F. 8. Tyau. and he prefaced it by saving that as the production of wealth was the dominating ideal of the nivetcesth century, so the promotion of health promised to be the woading ideal of the twentieth century. While the call to health was the characteristic or the western world, with the most hopeful signs of progress as evidenced by the reduction the death rate, comparatively nothing was being done for the Chinese Republic, the oldest nation of the world. Paragraphs were devoted by Dr. Tyau to the following headings: School instruction as the lading factor; the dissemination of health principles by the churches; and the influence of the women for better sanitary conditions, and the influence of the Press, He urged upon the Association the importance of the work, and the rived of appointing a special committee on public health-education, Dr. Wu on Sanitary Conscience.
Some sound reasoning was contained in the paper contributed by Dr, Wu Lien-teh on the topic of awakening the sanitary conscience of China, That a "sanitary con: rence" had existed among the Clunese for a long time was proved by writings handed down from the Cnou dynasty, and by the unconscious practice of hygiene in their duily hives. Those of them who wished to see a more sanitary Chi-must do all in their power to arouse that latent "sanitary conscience', and he was glad to see that the Association had initiated 4 public health section.
The first factor in the spread of public health ideas among Chinese was a realization of the superiority of i.odern western over ancient eastern medicine. Hygiene should be taught in the schools; sanitary boards and social leagues should be established, and there should be proper supervision of the work of the sanitary bodies in China by a centrally established public healt institute at the capital.
How to Bring Home to Ohina, Dr. Beebe, of Nanking, recom: mended the publication of Dr Stanley's paper in Chinese, remar] ing that it was just the thing Chi were wanting. The people had to be educated, and the Association was in a unique position with reference to this work. Dr. Houghton thought the papers touched upon a phase of education which was seldom heard of. It had a definite relation.to the specialized medical education in their schools, and they needed to have an intelligent laity with whom the youths could mix when they began their real life-work. The Association ought to be able to bring the concentrated and intense work outlined in the papers to perfect fruition, and one way of doing this would be to appoint a permanent executive secretary.
Other suggestions were made the same lines, after which the President said the executive committee had had the matter under considera-
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