Sanitaiiy Eefohm

in

Tukkey.- -A

measure

portance

to every tosvn in the Turkish

decreed.

A

of great im-

empire has just been Ministry of the Interior, has been created, with the function of improving the drainage, enforcing proper street scavengering, and generally plying measures for the advancement of public cleanliness, both in the capital and throughout the provinces. Its further duty will be to improve existing civilian hospitals, and es-

Hygienic Council,

attached to the

tablish new ones where needed.?The

Medical

Tress

and

Circular. Lord Napier's Government is maturing a most important training Native medical practitioners for village and

scheme for district

schools,

dispensaries. It is proposed Telugu districts, two

to

among the

Malayalum-speaking

establish

in the

two in the

The

races.

medical

Tamil,

course

and one

of

study,

embracing popular system of medicine and surgery, would extend over three years, and the students would take the place a

of the halcims and charlatans who now victimize the masses.

Under this scheme, some eight or ten qualified practitioners would be sent forth from each school, until there was at least one village doctor to every be the work of years to

8,500, but

provide

so

It

would, of course, many practitioners as

3,000 people.

project likely to confer a wider benefit upon future generations. The Local Fund and Town Improvements Bills have interrupted the consideration of the scheme, which will be resumed as soon these measures becomo ^aw*

we

know of

no

Friend of India,