Better Situation; Free Clinics Established Canton, Mar. 20.
Believing that it is partly responsible for the present crime wave, the authorities here have begun to tackle the question of unemployment in Canton.
According to semi-official statistics, no less than two-thirds of the population, which is now estimated to number between 700,000 and 800,000, are without Work, and how they live is a puzzle.
those fortunate enough to have jobs, the majority are employed by the Japanese military authorities in construction work connected with the rehabilitation of the city.
The Japanese, who have been doing all they can to relieve distress by establishing free clinics, depots to sell cheap rice, etc, are now said to be seeking expert advice to ameliorate the situation.
Several thousand unemployed, however, are expected to have jobs shortly following the formation of a large Sino-Japanese concern, which intends to establish a number of factories, The new enterprise is reported to have received the blessing of the Japanese military, who see in it a partial solution to the local unemployment problem. a Meanwhile, more medical clinics have been opened in various parts of the city to care for the poorer classes, who are being urged by handbills and posters to avait themselves of free inoculations against such infect tious diseases as smallpox and cholera.
At the same time the authorities, to enforce the observance of their sanitary regulations, have begun inspection of restaurants, hotels and tea houses—Reuter.
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