to provide Furniture or the fast-growing community in Hongkew of silk mill employee: wharf coolies, and riesha mer where less than 10 years ago were <ereen cultivated fields, now the old: farm houses are crowded upon on all' sides by straw and mud huts; and-where four years ago were-all straw and mud huts, now] these are fast giving place to wooden and cement houses; Hong-Kew" General Dispensary is the only charitable clinic which offers foreign medical care. in all this. silk mill: district' in Hongkew." 'Thus years the recently. published fourth annual' report of Hongkew General Dispensary and Baby Hospital.
'This work was started ina small Chinese house' in November, 1925, and was moved fo its present quarters, 173 Lin Ping Road a year ago. The Dispensary Clinic meets an urgent neod in this rapidly growing district. In the six months ending September 1, 1929, 4,484 sick persons were treated.
There come to this cline many poorly-developed children who are suffering from diseases of malnutrition; such as, marasmus, rickets, scurvy, beriberi, "pellagra, other children who are anemic and poorly nourished by improper: and insufiefont food who will later fall' prey, to tuberculosis which is '80 prevalent in this section, Through the generous gifts of a few friends, a large Baby Ward has been built on the flat roof of the dispensary. The aim is to establish a Baby Hospital, not for acute. cases, but rather for the ary'é funds and: they now: have an. and Surniture, Tie Nantao Telephone Admin" istration Office has decided to establish a branch' office at Lan-Nee-'Diy,. Pootung, and: the telephone Yervice will be inaugrated- in- the gistrictin May: or Jane. next, says (Qe china press.
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