At the meeting of the American Woman's Club on Tuesday, Dr, Arthur Stanley lectured upon health work in Shanghai.
Dr. Stanley said that health was merely a matter of education and the need for individual care in avoiding contact with infection was becoming more and more important. Sanitary science was a war against the animal and vegetable forms of life that produced disease in man. Tt wae the old struggle for the survival of the fittest by the erection of bulwarks against those agencies which would exterminate man if be did not control them.
The Work of Prevention, Dr. Stanley explained the work of the Shanghai Health Office in some detail. Beside other work, the special diseases of Shanghai and district were studied in the laboratory with view to making rules for their prevention, Analyses were made of food as to purity and freedom from disease infection, and other chemical, physical and biology ical tests were applied so that benefit to the public health might ensue. Foods were tested and analysed, impurities discovered and the sellers punished. Last year over 23,000 examinations were made for disease-producing microbes, a large number of which were for plague in rate. Six hundred chemical analyses of foods, etc., were also made. Sufficient' vaccine wae manufactured in the laboratory and issued to the public during the year to protect by 55,000 persona against smallpox. Since the beginning about 400 persons had received the Pasteur treatment against hydrophobia and many lives were thus saved.
Dr. Stanley explained the steps taken by the Health Office to educate people in measures necessary for their protection. The supervision of the food supply was another important duty of the Health Office, as so many diseases were caused by infected food. The most important work of the Health Office was the prevention of dangerous communica able disease. Dr. Stanley explained measures that were taken in this regard.
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