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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



A HINDU TEMPLE IN THE FIJI ISLANDS 



AND ITS PRIEST, WHO HAS BECOME 



AN APOSTLE OF DISEASE 



PREVENTION 



frames, with modern wood-working ma- 

 chinery, naturally amazed a people ac- 

 customed to handwork whose common 

 translation of "identical" is "not very 

 different." 



The institution consists of anatomical, 

 physiological, chemical, and pathological 

 laboratories, a 250-bed hospital, etc. The 

 trustees are chosen by the China Medical 

 Board in cooperation with six missionary 

 societies. 



It is expected that the nurses trained 

 here will be women, even for the men's 

 wards. This is an innovation, as China 

 has never had women nurses for men 

 patients. The change will be made cau- 

 tiously and gradually. Women will be 

 encouraged to enter the school for the 

 study of medicine. 



In addition to the Peking Union Med- 

 ical College, funds arc annually appropri- 

 ated for the improvement of hospitals 

 throughout the country, with a view to 

 providing suitable facilities for the doc- 

 tors turned out by the medical school, and 

 furnishing a demonstration to the people 

 at large of the benefits of modern medical 

 science. 



With that spirit of progress which seems 

 destined to mold China into one of the 

 future's chief nations, the government and 

 the people have heartily welcomed tin's 

 new evidence of American friendship and 

 faith. Cordial relations are maintained 

 with the Chinese leaders working in the 

 same fields of medicine and hygiene. 



The yearly deaths in China now num- 

 ber around 13,000,000. If the death rate 

 that obtains in the United States came to 

 apply in that country, the annual death 

 roll would reach only 4,550,000. 



Think of a possible saving of more 

 than eight million lives a year ! Think of 

 rescuing annually as many people from 

 untimely graves as live in Argentina or 

 Canada, more than live in Belgium, Aus- 

 tralia, or Sweden ! Was there ever such 

 a challenge to altruism and science as 

 that? 



Although the plan of campaign that 

 ultimately will eliminate the world's major 

 contagions has been well mapped out, the 

 officers' training camps, in which the men 

 who are to captain the forces of health in 

 the great drive, have been far from ade- 

 quate. From all parts of the world are 

 coming appeals for trained sanitarians. 



To meet this condition Johns Hopkins 

 University has established a School of 

 Public Health and Hygiene. Harvard has 

 enlarged its work along similar lines. 

 Columbia has expanded its medical activi- 

 ties, and all the health agencies of the 

 United States are cooperating in the crea- 

 tion of a proper course of instruction in 

 public health leadership. 



In Canada six medical schools have en- 

 larged their work ; in Belgium the Queen 

 Elizabeth Foundation for Medical Re- 

 search has been established ; in Brazil the 

 Medical School at Sao Paulo has added 

 hygiene and public health to its curricu- 

 lum. 



In England five million dollars has been 

 pledged to the University of London and 



