The Archive · 1926

Public Health in China

Educationalist's Views on the Awakening of the People to Their Needs Dr. J. H. Gray, representative the "National Amateur Athletic Asspciation in China, who did mos lof the organizing in 1921 of Chinese tears for the Far Bajtern Olympic Competition, arrived in Shanghai about a week ago. after several months travelling in various parts of China. Dr. Gray who is also on the Board of Physical Directors of the Y.M.CA. and a member of the Council on Public Health is] assuming the duties of Director of the Public Health Couneit during the absence of the present director, Dr. W. W. Peter, who will leave on June 32 for America.

Of his travels up the coast of China from Canton and_interlo: along the Yangtze as far a§ Changsha in Honan, Dr. Gray spoke most enthusiastically when interviewed yesterday. He found throughout} the principal ies visited work going on consistently along the lines civic improvement, he said, and) thig work in most cases had a direct bearing upon the development of public health in the country. It is fu intangible movement which cannot be attributed to any. single factor Dr. Gray deciared, bat rather!

the crystallizing of public opin-fon as to what must be done in civie improvement.

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