This has nothing to do with Walter Bagehot's brilliant book, but suggests itself as an appropriate title for reference to the new. quarantine hospital at Newchwang of which a correspondent sends us an interesting account to-day. The importance of such an institution needs no emphasizing: as our contributer rightly says, had the hospital existed a year ago, the cholera epidemic in the north would never have attained the dimensions it did. It is an open secret that the hospital is due to the initiative and energy of Dr. Wu Lien-teh who will be its chief medical, and it may be mentioned that this is the ninth hospital which in spite of political troubles and discouragement. Dr. Wu has succeeded in establishing
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