Health Programme wom Oun Own Conusroxoeer Hotel, Aug. 9.
Anhwei, most backward of the Yangtze 'River provinces, is also most backward in malters' of public health. There is a Department of Public Health located in Anking, but until recently its scope consisted of jan annual budget of $2,000. which altogether absorbed by the city of Anking. Most of this was neces-
[sary to support a job-holder who had an office in Anking, a little was distributed to several hospitals and doctors in Anking for free vaccinations, and it is reported that probably only' one hospital used this money for the purpose designated. That in brief was the provincial health programme.
Mission hospitals scattered through the province have had small public health programmes of their own, in Heu of anything belter. In a conference of mission hospital super-intendants held last year it was discovered that all were anxious to ce-operate with any programme that the government might wish to start, and a resolution to that effect was, forwarded to the Anking office, But Jnothing further has been heard.
'A start is being made this summer with a plan for placing trained mid-Wives in the larger centres where there are no modern hospitals avallable. Competitive examinations were held this summer, and graduate nurses easily won many of the selections, These girls and young women have been sent to Anking for six months' intensive course of study; they will then be returned to these centres to take charge of midwifery centres and the taining of their own assistants,
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