Among the many labour strikes which have taken place in Canton recently not one has been so serious, fas that of the nursing staff and! other employees of the -Canton Municipal Hospital, a Government institution ' which had not paid its servants for nearly eight months, owing to the civil war which is draining most the public revenue. Those remove them elsewhere have been left unoared for, and only through the efforts of the cooks, who contributes about $250 of' their own. money, those helpless ones were able to avert the starvation which would have met them, On humanitarian " grounds, the preterit staffs of the hospital' have been finally persuaded to resume service, In ordinary circumstances, the Municipal Hospital should have an anal appropriation of $35,452, and have facilities to care for 120 in and 200 out-patients daily. Renter's Pacific Service.
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