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106 fansils, bowls, chopsticks,oto,,in commen probably plays a very subordinate part, as kes bom stated above. Te szast,er rather to inflist fines for spitting in publie I would be useless for several reasons: firstly, the offenders cannot afford to pay
fines; secondly, the native pelics are every bit as bad offenders in this rompost, as the rest; thirdly, I am convinced that it is the expectoration on the fleers of the rooms in which the people live that is the chief source of the basilli, so that, even if expectørsting in public out of deers were stopped--"a censummation devottly to be wished" en other sossunts than the risk of disseminating tuberolo basilli-- there would be ne deterunt to a man exercising the privilege in his em rooms, unless his wife objected, and this she would not de seeing that she also freely avails herself of a like privilego. We are, therefore, reduced to the slower but more certain method--Education, and the question naturally follows: How and by whom ?
Burepcan desters would be of little if any uas directly. They do not come inte con- fast with the poor to airy ertent and they wuld not be listened to even if they sould succeed in making themselves understeed. The Chinese dooters would have a better chance, and, therefore, much may be haped from the leonlly qualified practition- ar whọ comes more inte sentast with the people both at the hospital during his youts of training, and also after he graduates and goes into practics.
Better still would it be to attempt to instruct the people in their houses and this, I venture to suggest, osuld be accomplished in the following way. The Y.1.0.4, and the Y.V.G.A., to which many of the better edusatod classes belong,have courses of lectures from time to time on various subjosts, Like all the laity they are inter- ested in medical questions and there is no reason why popular (er,te use Huxley'■ preferable term,Pasple's) lectures and demonstrations should not be girm at these inskitutions, and such lectures on medical subjects never fail to draw, This would form a nucleus, and from among the members, the women more than the man, some would sertainly be found to spread the glad tidings of the gospel of health, at first in their em homes among their servants, and later tactfully to promulgate the doctrines they had been taught. After a time a regular system of distrist visiters (in the medical sense) sight be inaugurated; these w uld not only instruct the mothers in shild welfare and the dangers of feeding their children in the way indicated earlier. but would instil into the adults, and, through them, the growing childrm health prin- siples generally, the teachers of the Chinese attending British schools might also with advantage incorporate elementary hygienic principles as object lessens for their pupils.
Then, and net tee soon,for 'festina lente' is the sette for all sosial and health