Prices for food in Peitaiho have advanced. Mandarin fish and rock bass which used to be presented to the returning householder as cum-ows by the garden coolies as a sort of welcoming flower have advanced from 40 cents to $150 and prawns, which used to be within the every day reach of the servants" pocketssare now a luxury for the master's table, Building materials have skyrocketted and ordinary coolie labour costs have doubled. During the fishing season the comand for labour is so great that even the blind men of the vrrounding villages are gathered on the beach to help pull in the seines.
ch crew of seine pullers only rees one pair of eyes and after this men has placed the blind folk in their positions he takes the advance position and sings his orders All the larger houses in Peitaiho have been taken for the summer and the holiday colony will include many Embassy and Legation officials and their families from Peiping.
The railway hospital has been kept open throughout the winter and residents of all the outlying villages are coming in greater nu help. Eye infections, chronic disaas end blindness are the most frequent complaints and the hospital has done a great work in educating the people la the use of a few drops of argyrol in the eyes of birth as so much need-lose sightlessness has been caused by ignorance and the lack of simple treatments, The hospital has a qualified bactebiologist on the staff, Miss Pei, and the examination fees are ridiculously all for tests, so there is no longer eny reason or excuse for ignorance concerning: the purity of the water in wells, state of one' blood or the presence of tery. who received his training in Great Britain was of great tance to stranded foreign residents last autumn and is still the resident physician at the hospital, Tubowoh passenger tickets from Tokyo to Peiping will be placed on sale on August l, it was announced in Tokyo. Through freight trans portation between the two cities w begin in November,
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