The Archive · 1940

.|Rotary Club Hears Of Health Campaign City-Wide Propaganda Against Germs Planned

Mrs. Carleton Lacy was the speaker at yesterday's weekly tiffin meeting of the Rotary Club which was held at the Metropole Hotel..As chairman of the Civic Affairs Committee of the Joint Women's Organizations of Shanghai, the speaker urged full support of the "Health Through Cleanliness" campaign which will be sponsored by her organization from May 1 to May 8, and which has the full support of the Health Depart ments of both the French Concession and the International Settlement, The main objective of this year's campaign will be to combat flies and mosquitoes as germ-carriers and thousands of posters will be dis-The played on public vehicles and billboards. Mrs. John S. Barr, the the Chinese population while public nurses will visit homes to explain the evil of germ-carrying insects.

Special will be spon-time sored by the two Public Health ts in all schools under their jurisdiction, Mrs. Lacy added.

Cash awards have been provided for in an essay contest which is being arranged as a special feature of the campaign and in which students of the upper primary grades will be given an opportunity to compete.

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