Medical Research is to be congratulated on its important contribution to. the study of industrial conditions in Shanghai by the publication of Dr. LIS. Gear's valuable report on his detailed investigation of the health of workers in the printing trade here. This report should give proper stimulus to a form. of investigation which is long overdue in Shanghai, now a large industrial city. "Tt is not, enough. to say that political diffeulles have retarded this attention to the welfare of industrial workers in the past. The truth is that the rapid industrialization of this city has taken, authorities by surprise and the implications of their responsibilities have not Been entirely grasped. The creation of a special section in the Municipal Council's administration for the regular examination of such prob-Jems as safety precautions and health {conditi tus in industrial enterprises "has enabled the community to be put In
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