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MEDICAL; AND PHILANTHROPIC WORKThe lectures and exhibit have been presented in thefollowing large centres; Shanghai, Changsha (and Siangtan),Nanking, Hangchow, Weihwei and Kaifeng, Pekingand Tientsin. In all of these cities the most cordialreception has been given to the lecturer, and thousands ofintelligent and interested Chinese have had brought hometo them in an incisive way the great need of China for theprevention of disease, for scientific medical education, andfor the conservation of her greatest asset the lives of herpeople.^IGHealth LecturesexP enses connected with this phase ofthe work have been borne in every case bythe cities in which the campaigns were conducted; in mostof the places all of the officials have co-operated in the mostcordial way, schools have been dismissed to permit theattendance of the pupils, the police and soldiery have beenordered to attend, and in several places a definite programmehas been adopted looking toward the continuance of healtheducation for the masses, arid special disease-preventionmeasures.In Changslui, for example, one result oftlie lecture campaign has been the establishament of a tuberculosis sanitarium, built atcost of $20,000 and conducted under the joint direction ofthe Hunan gentry and the Hunan-Yale Medical School.The stimulation of interest and inquiry among the culturedand intelligent classes is paving the way to a demand formunicipal sanitation, hospitals, and hygienic standards ofliving, and the Council has felt that this campaign featurehas fully justified by its results all the labour and expenseconnected with it. More than 100, 000 people have attendedthe demonstrated lectures.The lantern slide work is well under way,Excfaan ebut because of inadequate staff and equipment it has been necessary to limit theCirculation of lantern slides. The preparation of educational slides with a local Chinese setting is slow and difficultwork, but progress is being made steadily. The Councilhas sets of slides together with outlines of lectures both inEnglish and Chinese, on various important subjects, such