Board report, Mrs. Giles said: The Sino-Japanese war, bringing with it such over-whelming misery and di tress, has caused a fundamental change in the administration of charitable work. So far as the B.W.A. was concerned, it began with what, practically amounted to an amalgamation of the Executive and the Social Service Board, as there were too few members in Shanghai to run either committee alone. We held our first meeting after the outbreak of war on September 8, 1937 in a private house. Mrs. Whitney suggesttd that an amalgamation of the charitable societies was needed.to prevent wastage of funds, and di: cipation, of energy. It was found that some people were on the books of various societies, and were receiving help from all, owing to a lack of ce-ordination. We held one very Successful meeting at Mrs. Hardman's house on September 29, when representatives from various societies attended. It was a good beginning to the work which Dean Trivett took Over and enlarged, so that now the "Associated. Foreign Charities Com-of Shanghai includes practical-cly all charitable groups of all nations
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