The Health Department of the Shanghai Municipal Council is to be cgreratulated "upon, the production of a 7%-pao booklet on "How Keep Healthy in Shanghai." Publ cation by the Department will ta place in about a week's time a residents who do not receive a copy, may obtain one on application to. the Health Department, Administration Building. "Its appearance 1s as welcome as it Is timely. So many of the older residents of this port have acquired by bitter experience the knowledge of how to take care of themselves that they" will cordially endorse the issuance of this publication which will save newcomers much of the tribulation which they at times had to endure. The foreword to the work explains the intention of its producers:—
This booklet ts prepared for the public in the hope that ft will be of {asistance in. dealing with the every problems which confront residents, especially new= comers.
'Though It fs realized that some of the "suggestions made are' really counsels of perfection, they are none the Jess worthy of emulation as far "The favourable reception given previous booklet on similar' toplen encourages the hope. that the present Production will stimulate thought and Lenin direct attention to the necessity for continual vigilance in all matters relating to individual or communal health {The work in some ways reminds of those occasions years ago. when bout the commencement of the ts summer Dr. Noel Davis. a former Commissioner for Public Health wrote delightfully on similar matters. given itten in an easy, simple this instance. "the" Information style and will present no ditteulty s0 far as understanding it is con~ cerned. It is pleasing to note that a Chinese edition is in the press and that editions in other languages, notably Russian and Javanese, are' contemplated. "When full circulation has been achieved a very great contribu-lon to public health in Shanghai will have been made.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.