The services which the devoted workers of the Henry Lester Institute of Medical Research render to the community are worth study in the pages of the annual report of which a brief summary was given yesterday. In a real sense the Institute acts as cementer of international comradeship in the Aight against disease and ignorance. The untimely death of Dr. Erle Reid during the past year brought to prominence the work of scientist who, beginning his bril-ant career at Aberdeen University continued it in further research at Western Reserve University, US.A. and the College of Agriculture, Call. fornia. In securing the services of Dr. Reid the Institute welcomed man who had specially studied nutri ton from the agricultural and medical points of view. His contribution to the subject included four publications on the value of soya bean-egg powder as a local food for infants. Com= manding the cooperation of the Na-anal Institute for Medical Research, London and the Holt Shipping Line the Shanghai institution was able to send Dr. F. F. Tang of its staff to the National Tnstitute as a visiting worker, his free return passage being. provided by the Holt Line as part of its travelling fellowship scheme. In spite of the restrictions imposed by financial depression the Lester Institute has been able to carry out come remarkable field observations in reinforcement of its laboratory work. For example te creeks and lakes of the Surrounding country are attacked to deal with certain parasitic diseases. Leprosy has been studied on the analysis of 700 cards received from cooperating hospitals and one fact has already emerged: the enormous infidence of that disease in northern Shantung. Exceptionally interesting experiments have been conducted in the study of "deficiency diseases" and they have thrown considerable light fon the problem of infant nutrition as well a3 on the dietary conditions of the people as a whole. In short the Institute Is steadily collecting a faas of information and data which must be valuable to al! who have to solve problems relating to the general welfare and progress of the country and the various communities into Which its inhabitants are divided,
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