With the gradual breaking up of the refugee camps and the return of thousands of refugees to the owlying: farm districts, Shanghai is breathing a bit easier as far as the refugee problem in general is concerned. But the decreasing refugee problem has left Shanghai with a large legacy of tubercular patients. There are more tubercular refugee patients now seeking entrance into the tuberculosis hospitals for refugees than ever before. Every bed in these refugee institutions filled and applications for admittance far outnumber beds left empty by deaths or recoveries. It has become apparent that of all the refugee hosis, the last that can be closed up will be those that care for the increasing number of ' tubercular patients that cannot go back to their homes and former occupations.
Just as in leprosy, segregation still remains the best means for preventive Work, in like manner there is no better preventive work done at the present time in the refugee camps and the over crowded Chinese homes of Shanghai than that done by those who take the tubercular patients from these crowded quarters and care for them in large hospital wards. Both the patients and {he remaining refugees are thereby greatly benefitted.
In' order that this work {or tubercular patients, especially among the refugee camps and crowded homes, may become more permanent, a strong organization was recently born. The Shanghai Anti-Tuberculosis Association composed of Shanghai's foremost benefactors, sanatarians, educators and gentry put themselves behind the task of caring for the greatly increased number of tubercular patients resulting from the war, During December, a sub-committee of this Association is launching a large Anti-Tuberculosis Christmas Stamp Sale in Shanghai not only to raise funds, but especially to educate the public in getting them antituberculosis minded.
The Hospital for Tuberculosis, operated by the Anti-Tuberculosis Association, is now housed in the spacious rooms of a large modern building on the compound of St. Luke's No. 2 Refugee Hospital, 37B Brenan Road, opposite Jessfield Park. The hospital is open for inspection every Wednesday afternoon from three to five. It takes in patients as fast as beds become vacant. The superintendent solicits the help of Shanghai residents in procuring bed linen, towels, pillows, Chinese cotton blankets and such things as are essential in a sanatorium for tubercular patients.
Stamps are on sale at the following gre Th TO
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