low A. Comssrowoe Nanchang, July 20. fore 800 entvusiasties at tion ceremony of the Rural Enterprise Society, on July 16 Dr. Li Fong-yun, rural' health expert and promoter, delivered a very interesting report' on the present health condition in China, the gist of which follows.
'The rate of necrology in China is about 30 per 1,000 annually; that is say, the death rate of the 400,000, (00 is' 12,000,000 a year. As the progress of public health and sanitation has been poor, s0 at least halt of the deaths every year in China could be classed as avoidable.
There are 18,000,000 people Kiangsi. The annual death rate will bbe around $40,000. If the public health and sanitation services are properly developed such a high death Fate could be reduced considerably and the average life of the populace China at "present lacks qualified medical and health workers. Up to the present, the number of qualified physicians and medical. practitioners {in the whole of China is only 6,000—number lamentably small to cover services for a vast country of 400,- (000,000 people.
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