NEGOTIATIONS, The Child Health Clinic, opened! Jast August by the National Child Welfare Association on Paoshan Road in Chapei, cared for 2,669 cases up to the end of December, 2,174 were surgical eases while 495 were for internal medicine, Serious cases which required resident treatment were sent to the Red Cross General Hospital and the Margaret Williamson Hospital according to arrangement made by the Child Welfare Association, Every* one of the 2,669 cases resulted in a "complete recovery. For promotion of preventive health the nuise visited 431 homes in her professional calls, 195 children were vaccinated, As tharly as 40 children were given baths in a single day.
This clinic moved from the present site to West Jiukang Road on New Republic Road in the same Chapei district, where clinical service will be given from to-day. The new site is a much more needy field as the locality is populated preponderantly by the: poor from the north of the river. Again, there is no clinic, hospital, or private practitioner in that section, which is so poor economically. The Child Welfare Association, how-fever, chooses to establish its new health centre there with a view to bringing in curative and preventive measures to the great number of children in the place. Every morning from 9 to 11, Sunday excepted, is the clinic hour for cure of the sick, The afternoons will be used for keeping the healthy well through free baths, nurses' visita tions, mothers conferences, and free consultations, The Health Contre is under the direction of Dr. W. S. New, the well-known orthopedist, whose in-torest: in children's health is seen by the long chain of health clini in different parts of Shanghi which he is superintending. Dr. 'W. 8. Fu, professor of National Central Medical College and pechs trician of Red Cross. General Hospital, attends the clinic every day. 'The National Child Welfare 'Astoclation is very fortunate in having the service of these two Volunteer workers. 'They are a sisted by' three ladies, Dr. Yang, Mrs. Hua and Miss Sarah Hui the first is a doctor in Magaret Williamson Hospital, the second the matron and the third the trained nurse of the Centre, who have all been rendering valuable services,
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