Sheghah Sep 38 Committee of Shanghai Women's Organizations held their first meeting of the season in the Green Room at the Shanghai Race Club on Wednesday, September 25, the Scandinavian Women's Association being the hostesses.
After a short introduetory speech welcoming members back from the summer recess Mrs. H. J. Van Hengel, president of the Joint Committee, introduced to the audience Professor Winifred Cullis, who is on a tour of the Far East on behalf of the Briti Ministry of Information. A tifin has been arranged by the Joint Committee which will give members of the constituent groups an opportunity to meet this distinguished lady in a more personal, way. he principal speaker of the afternoon was Dr. Constance Cater, who spoke on "the problem of mental health in Shanghai." "Dr. Cater, a urnduate of Cambridge University, has been on the staff of the Lester Chinese Hospital for many years and Is.a very active member of the Mental "Association, started two years' ago 1._Dr. Halpern and Dr. Cater are'in charge of the medical side of the mental clinic, opened just over six months ago in St. Luke's Hospital, nit later moved to the Red Swastika Hospital at 1171 Vu Yuen Road. Dr. Cater ably illustrated different. kinds mental illnesses and the facilities, or rather dimeulties, in Shanghai for coping with "drug ' addicts, "suicide ses, alcoholism and neurotics, both foreign and Chinese, and stressed the necessity for more' hospitals, more doctors, more expert helpers "and more money.
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