From the Health Committee of the Women's Union

◆ We have received the following from Mrs. Christine Rizk, president of the Health Committee of the Women's Union:

The Health Committee of the Lebanese Arab Women's Federation continues to work with zeal and energy for the improvement of the state of health and of general cleanliness in the town. It has exerted numerous efforts which have brought proven benefits and many results for the comfort of the inhabitants, too many to enumerate here. It regrets that the municipality has not allowed it the health motorcar that used to carry it through the quarters of the city to keep in touch with the inhabitants and to hear their complaints, so as to raise them to the proper quarter — this on account of the epidemics current this year.

And we are pleased to announce that the great benefactress the Marquise de Freige has presented to the committee, as is her custom every year, a bolt of national cloth, which we have sewn and distributed as aprons to some of the bakery workers, so that they may appear in a clean state. We have hopes that this distribution will grow to include all the bakeries of the town. To her our thanks and our appreciation.

And it is a cause for satisfaction to see, on the one hand, this genuine concern on the part of the authorities for the public interests, and, on the other, compliance with the orders of the authorities out of willingness and consent on the part of the inhabitants; and this shows us clearly that culture and refinement have begun to yield their results in the character of the community and in its understanding of the meaning of progress and advancement.