The Archive · 1934

Fighting Against Summer Disease

Great Work at Tibet Road Hospital: Man with Temperature of 108 Degrees When a withering sun blisters pavements for days and blasts tempers into a chronic state of irritability, a signal for most of us to relax, rally around electric fans, and court ensure. To the staff of six Chinese beneath his arm-pit. The routine of caring for the intestinal colic of the mah went on precisely. and efficient ly. Only the waiting patients seemed awed into speechlessness. Their groans and complaints ceased magi-but power behind the worker it China, As an instance of what can be accomplished in this direction, I might mention that, under the old system of sowing, reaping and threshing wheat by hand, it. took three hours on the average of hard human labour, to produce one bushel of wheat: by' using modern machinery, this can now be accomplished in "three minutes. Obviously, " the belt results must be the creation of leisure for the worker, and. an. in: crease in the upward scale of living.

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