The misapprehension which led to the belief that the Chung San Hospital was not being used is courteously corrected by Dr. C. H. Chou. His correction is all the more welcome for he supplies interesting details of the important part which the Hospital is actually playing in graph pling with the problem of medical organization at this time. As an emergency hospital for cholera cases the institution is receiving patients from all three municipal areas. This is a point io be firmly emphasized, for the arrangement which Dr. Chou has been able to make in cooperation with the three health authorities has indirectly facilitated the treatment of wounded soldiers, in that the acceptance of cholera patients exclusively in the Chung Sun Hospital for the time being has obviously set free accommodation elsewhere in the Settlement and French Concession up to the limits agreed upon with the military authorities. The work which the hospital is doing makes it necessary for its administration to draw attention to its financial needs. It is understood that more funds are required. Here then is one definite object on which charitable energy might be concentrated. For the rest Dr. Chou confirms this journal's opinion that medical men, both foreign and Chinese, are manfully struggling with a most difficult situation which would be immeasurably relieved if the affluent resi of Shanghai really put their hands in fair pockets and took to heart Dr. Chou's admirable contention that "both government and the people should do their utmost in providing for the necessary care of the wounded soldiers who are fighting for our security and freedom." The arrival in Shanghai of the delegate from ihe International Red Cross at Geneva, M. de Watteville, who is proceeding to Nanking, will no doubt stimulate activities in this regard. In the meantime it is fitting to recoj the practical solicitude shown by Dr. Chou and his colleagues. May they soon find that they have behind them such resources as will give. them full scope for their professional skill An interesting suggestion is made by a foreign surgeon who points out that the urgent need for Chinese doctors in the field hospitals in Chinese territory near Shanghai could be met if an appeal were made for foreign doctors to take over the duties of looking after the wounded Chinese soldiers in the International Settlement and French Concession. The suggestion. from its source seems tó be based on accurate knowledge of the readiness of the foreigners to fill the breach and therefore it deserves Special consideration. Its adoption should cer-tairnly reduce the shortage of trained medical men in hospitals where they are greatly in demand.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.