TO IMPROVE CHINESE CONDITIONS

The Rockefeller Foundation of New York announces that it will establish an organization to be known as the China Medical Board in order to carry out extensive improvements in medical and hospital conditions in China. Jerome D. Greene '96, Dr. Francis D. Peabody '03 and Roger S. Greene '01, are to be members of the board, and the latter will act as resident director in China.

This action on the part of the Rock feller Foundation is the result of a careful, first-hand investigation, conducted by a commission of which Dr. Peabody and Mr. R. S. Greene were members. The report of this commission has been adopted by the Foundation as the basis of its future work in China.

Mr. R. S. Greene, whose headquarters will be in Pekin, will have entire charge of the work under the general supervision of the home office in New York City.

It is the aim of the China Medical Board to carry forward medical education in China by training more native doctors at the various hospitals already existing there. Then with a larger, more efficient force of Chinese doctors, the work of establishing new hospitals can be undertaken.

In this way a native medical force will be developed, one which will be better able to cope with certain diseases, such as tuberculosis, for which the present medical system is inadequate.

To build up a body of Chinese physicians which will eventually take the lead in medical affairs in China, the Foundation has established six travelling fellowships, each of $1,000 a year. The Fellows have been appointed and one has already arrived in this country.

China suffers greatly from tuberculosis and is at present without any institution capable of dealing with the disease. Therefore the commission asks that the Foundation assist in the establishment of two model tuberculosis hospitals, properly equipped according to modern scientific practice.