The meeting of the Saturday Club, held at the Palace Hotel on Saturday morning, was a mow successful one, and the attendance included number of delegates to the China Medical Missionary Coa. ference. arms, he eaid, and to get recruits The medical profession linked up the lay community in their work. He felt that foreigners could do very little by themselves in the matter of public health in Chins.
One of the chief things they had to fight was dirt. If they had no dirt, there were no bacteria, and no bacteria meant that there would be no disease, The lay public must work with the medical pro fession in the fight. Dr. Main also mentioned infantile mortality, smallpox, tuberculosis and other diseases, and concluded by saying there were many things in whic layman could help, but all wore more or less mixed up with insects dirt and lack of ventilation. by themselves, the blind become depressed, their great ambition being to work side by side with the eceing. As there are hundreds of thousands of the blind in China, the speaker urged that each mission school should have one teacher obis to give instruction to them An historical survey of the course of study recommended by the East China Educational Union was given by Dr. J. T. Proctor, who stated that the curriculum 90 far develop-represented the quirement for any educa' tablishment calling itself a college. He commended the three courses in use at Nanking University as being the most complete yet adopted in China. The work set for the Government schools, he pointed out, was quite modern, and represented an ideal towards which the schools might well work for the next fifty years.
Dr. Fong also contributed a paper on the same subject, and general business was then discussed.
Cleanliness in Streets, Dr. Wu Liea-teh spoke on the public health needs of Ohina. He commenced by referring to the habit of epitting in the streets, and said the authorities should take steps to educate the publio He urged the placing of spittoons at every lamp post as a preventive measure. It was most important that proper disposition be made of the city sewage and garbage. Everyone could be of help in thie work; it only required proper guidance. Such diseases as emallpor, ete., could easily be prevented.
Wu made the follow.n regarding public healt:
1, Educstion 'n kygienc must be begun in the primary schools, 2 educated and influential men should form social leagues and help their less fortunate brothers and sisters in getting health; 3 there should be & sanitary board in every city. Authorities do not seem to realize that sanitary boards need the assistance of competent. medical men.
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