Yet there is the other side of the picture. Dr. Rajchman's visit to China has resulted in a2 agreement between the Ministry of Health and the league of Nations which has apparently been passed by the Executive Yuan and underwritten by the Ministry of Finance and which will be announced some time in February. From private conversations and from a general survey of what is being done, it would seem that this agreement will lead to one of the most construc-. tive works of the National Government, for not only will something be done, but it will be done directly and unmistakably for the Chinese people.
It is an astonishing fact that the science of medicine, particularly of public sanitation, has upon as a rapidly dying race, buf entered Governments by a kind they are now apparently a sure, of back-door of Great War viving race, which changes thd necessity and is already making complexion of things in Asia itself felt as the pre-eminently very considerably. For thd) constructive and beneficial busi-Barga region includes part off, ness of Government, with which the Chinese Eastern Railway ang can never be associated any if the Mongols should manage form of -polities or corruption. to get their Barga back, part of ud this is as true in China as this railway will ran through it is in New Zealand. The medi-Manchuria and part. of it cal men who are to do the new through Mongolia and both ity work, led by the Minister of terminals will be in Russ health, Dr. J. He Liu, will do which is e frightful thing for their work irrespective of pol:- railway-.to do. Even the Kino ties, just as the P.U.BLC. in Pe= Han line cannot survive being king continues in of the cut constantly into three or four removal of the capital. It is parts and the cuttings with re~ much easier to move a Ministry gard to the Kin-Han are friend-than a hospital, because the ly cuttings, for the relationship people would cling so tenacious-among leaders must ever be that ly to the latter. Now, one of of elder and younger brothers the very remarkable facts about who march hand-in-hand, But China is the scarcity of hosthe C. E. R. will not be in 80 pitals. Dr. John B. Grant, in his fraternal an atmosphere, article in the 1929-80" China This conference on January Year Book, describes the situa-25 is undoubtedly the most signition as follows: ficant international event cines 'The provision for hospital faci-the Washington Conference and Jities in China is meagre, and a it ought not to be disregarded by, considerable part of that' which those who want to see Ching may be considered adequate from shackles, surely from modern standards are either Soviet shackles. Admittedly, thd wholly or partly foreign super-thing has been a bad moss, bub vised, largely of a missionary recriminations and personal ae"
nature, ensations are useless. It makes If memory served, there are no difference who won the war, about 300 hospitals in the whole the thing is to win the peace, 1 of China and about 4,000 mod matters little who tried to taka arnly trained doctors. The hosthe railway from Soviet Russia, pitals are of all grades and the task now is to prevent Russia characters and. utilize all sorts from taking more than the rail-of methods; the doctors are as way from China, Those wha varied in equipment as the were always so bitter in their hospitals.. The task, then, is denunciations of imperialism are Jay a medical foundation for the silent to-day, but how will they reconstruction of China and explain their silence when more that is exactly what the union Chinese territory is lost to Ruse of forces of the Ministry of sia and her alli Health and the Health "Committee of the League of Nations will accomplish.
For the National Government,
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