Feb. 4
Leadership in the study dnd protection of the: public's. health remains: with the International Settlement if only because of the comparative antiquity of the Public Health Department of the Shanghai Municipal Council which has now ceived. the 39th Annual Report from its Commissioner of Public Health, the foundations of the Department's labours having been laid 65. years ago. The Department self was organized in 1908 by Dr, Stanley but in 1871, two years after the amendment of the Land Regulations had given the Couneit power to take measures for "the beter order und good government of the Settlement" one of the first steps in the provision of municipal facilities for the treatment of disease was taken-by making. small grant to the Chinese Hospital—now the Lester Hospital for. Chinese, In the next year a first grant wax made.to the Foreign (now the General) Hospital, from municipal funds. To-day the activities of the Public Health Department betoken remarkable development from those modest beginnings. The growth of the Settlement: to the dimensions of a modern city with Population.of more than 1,000,000 within a comparatively limited are automatically threw heavy responsibilities upon the Council. These responsibilities have been prudently ageepled and conscientiously dis~ charged, thanks to the creation of a fine body of public health offtecrs under.competent and enlightened direction, The combined activities of the Council's Public Health Department and the more recently established Henry Lester Institute of Medical Research has been of great practical Importance to the Settlement und, as has been, explicity. recognized, by the Public rhe friendly eooperation between the Council and its {wo immediate neighbours in public health matters is. gratefully noted in the report which Dr. J.
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