Nanking, Oct. 14.
The Directorate-General of Posts, of the Chinese Government will remain in Shanghai until the next spring, It is said.
'Owing to delay in internal decora~ lon' and other' minor engineering works, the mew communications Duilding at Sahchiawan, just opposite the Ministry of Railways in Nanking, will not be ready for occupation until Sometime middle of November, when the Ministry of Communications will move in—Central News. present quinine seems still to hol Kis enviable position in the cure of the disease.
This section sat until long after: the closing hour to listen to a fas-many Kinds of mos, beautiful mos-Quit eggs from malarial mosquitoes. For comparison eggs had been sent to the professor's laboratory from Europe, China and various parts of British Tndia. Mosquito eggs float on the water by means of small floats fon either side of the egg.
Earlier in the day the professor lectured on the way mosquito prevention was carried on in the Dutch East Indies by eliminating the mos-Quite breeding places along river beds and in the government fish ponds. The results of several. years Of this public health work was discussed most clearly.
Village Sanitation It becomes evident that with many of the modern. methods of transport ation and local changes resulting from. the introduction of factories, commercial enterprises and the like formerly non-infested areas have become breading places for the ma-Tarial mosquito. "True civilization from a public health viewpoint only advances if the scientist with his laboratory simultaneously enters the field. Any artificial change of the laws of mature becomes dangerous until other laws of mature can be called into play to check on the changes made in the natural course of development by social and especially commercial progress.
Dr. J. W. Scharff of Penang dis. cusecd village sanitation with usual ability. Sanitation of villages often Becomes dificult because of its expense and because of the danger of Upeetting customs of long standing which are borne from economical Causes, Night soil is exceedingly Valuable troughou, the East. Its inexeusable—the East because of the tremendous role it plays as fertilizer. Rice fields covered with water are a potential danger in malarial infection yet cannot be dispensed with. Dr. Scharff described methods and results used in rural sections Penang.
In the evening the guests were entertained by Cheng Yen-chin and his Peking company of theatrical performers. The child players in the first act were greatly admired by the audience bu, the height of the performances came ju the last act when Mr. Chen most skillfully impersonate ed Miss Nieh Ting in a sword dance.
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