Under the chairmanship of Dr.
Kung, Minister of Industry, Commerce and Labour the executive committee of the National Welfare Association held its monthly meeting.
In reporting the work done by the Child Health Department Dr. W. New, the Honorary Health Director, id' that during the month of August no less than 2,008 children were given medical care by the ohmics at Chapei and Yangtszepoo, and 141 home visitations in the interest of public health education, were made by the nurses.
Dr. Kung reported on the piece of very desirable property which the National Government is giving to the Association on which to erect 'a model child welfare home and a demonstration centre service. The I lof Nanking adjoining Ginling College and within short reach of the Chung Shan Highway. It has been the purpose of the Association from its beginning to make a contribution the general efforts for child welfers by starting a model welfare home where there will be provision for a demonstration in the, health and education of dependent—children according to modern approved methods.
While the Home aims to care for!
200 children only, it is capable of much good through its function as a demonstration and example since government officials and visitors from all parts of China come to Any idea successfully serve as a stimulus to be taken those who vi be housed in 8 cottages with 25] children in ench, under a separate matron, whose duty is to make the institution as much of a home for the orphans as possible.
Being keenly aware of the needs of the small children that are taken, to the factories by their mothers who work in them which condition is by no means suitable to their growth, not to mention that their presence is an obstacle to efficiency, the Executive Committee approved|\ of opening a nursery school in
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