Feb, 21. four instalments the authorized summaries of the annual repor' of the Public Health Commissioner of the International Settlement have been published on successive days. Although rigidly confined to fact and scientific deduction, these documents have some of the attractions fof a serial story and many of the charms of a biographical memoir. For, in essence, they represent the Department's modest tale to which it would be meet to give the title: Germ Fighting." The campaign of public health protection is an exciting one; whether she Department is tracking down the nefarious operations of unlicensed dairies, endeavouring to ensure the purity and cleanliness of the food supply, detecting and announcing the discovery of Shanghai's first experience of foot-and-mouth disease, improving the health of the Chinese population by getting at the children now attending the Council's expand-
OR HE CELESTIAL, SCHOLARSHIP OF A, P,
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