Rockefeller Foundation about to Inaugurate Programme of Improvement Manila, Nov. 17.
With the assurance of financial support of its work here for another year as shown by a liberal provision in the appropriation bill for 1925, the Rockefeller Foundation will in: ugurate a new programme for pub-tic health improvement in the Philippine Islands next year consisting of the establishment of provincial sanitary demonstrations, according to announcement just made.
At its own expense the founda tion will undertake the operation of a provincial sanitary. service!
Drincipal, Mr. Hwang, but Mr.|primarily to demonstrate improved Hwang, having had military. exper- facilities employed in rural sanitary work and also to train Filipino tec nical assistants who may take over the work after it has been organiz-position against his appointment, Me. Hwang got on horseback, attended by a guard of four soldiers, rode out the five miles from Wuchang to the Lan Hu. There he met, the main body of the students in a field, and spoke his mind to them, He assured them that he had no de sire to be their principal, beau: he had several good occupations: which kept im busy in the city, but tha if he did come to them, it would be with a military rod to establish a of martial law.
Hearing that ey had made a demand for automobiles to take them to the city, he irani promised them horses and cabs, and also offered th tric light for their study satisfy their pirations after earning he would find them a dean who could talk ever xo many foreign Tanguages.
For more than two years the Foundation has conducted an malaria campaign in several provinees in ce-operation with the Philippine Wealth service. With the completion of purely experimental work on the habits of mosquitoes and other carriers of malarin which has been conducted in two provinces of Luzon, it is expected that early the coming year the results of the experiments will be applied in other parts of the Philippines.
The Foundation also started a successful, anti-hookworm campaign several months ago and it has now been given over to the Philippine health service—Reuter's Pacific PIRACY COMMITTEE,
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