A great lady has completed a life lof solid usefulness to her generation in the death of Dame Adelaide Anderson. China knew her well and has reason to be grateful to her for labours undertaken at a time when she could have justly demanded lelsure. Four times she came to give China the benefit of her ripe \ex= perience in the advancement of fac= tory inspection. Slanghal, in parti-Jeular, owes her much on that account, Indeed her frst appearance here in 1928 was directly due to the invitation of the Shanghai Municipal [Council which desired her acceptance of membership of its Commission on Child Labour. Hers was in a real sense a pioneer career, for she came from her native Australia to graduate fat Girton in the year of Queen Vie~ toria's Golden Jubilee (1887). Appointed to the Home Office she devoted twenty-four years of her life the study of factory conditions os Jan Inspector of Factories and her fluence on the industrial progress of her time has therefore been eonsiderfable. She has left on permanent re-Jeord her experiences in "Women In the Factory, an Administrative venture, 1893 to 1921"—a fascinating personal document and a real contri= bution to social history,
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