Midwives are trained there under a competent English head. As for the clinics, children are treated there, and their parents are taught the principles of hygiene, appropriate clothing and food, and how to treat common childhood illnesses. This is done by a qualified English nurse.

The provincial councils bear the expenses of the midwifery schools, and they are supervised by the Central Ladies' Committee in Cairo, using the advice of the Director of the Public Health Department and with the help of local committees.

A female inspector is now appointed to visit each school in turn and supervise its work so that the midwives are trained uniformly to obtain a certificate and to inform the Central Committee of everything that happens there. After the midwife completes her training and returns to her village, her work is subject to inspection by the head of the midwifery school in the province and by members of the local committee, so that there is always contact between her and her school, and her work remains under supervision, and the condition of children in her village also remains under supervision.

It is hoped that this will gradually lead to progress throughout the country, addressing the shortcomings of midwives in transferring knowledge from women to women. It is also hoped that all the links in this system will eventually come together in one chain with a central midwifery office in Cairo and a branch school for training, which will be a model for training in advanced European countries. If this hope is realized, a law will be enacted for the practice of midwifery, and its implementation will be under government supervision.

The plague is now under control, and it appears to have succumbed to the superior raid launched against it since its appearance in 1889. The area in which it appeared last year was similar to the area in which it appeared the year before, but the number of cases decreased, with only 654 cases in 1913 compared to 884 cases in 1912, and deaths were only 304 compared to 441 in 1912. Experiments are currently being conducted at the Health Institute of the Public Health Department to discover an easily usable treatment for fleas and their species.

The capacity of hospitals in Egypt has slightly increased, and the reason for this is that many people now seek them out voluntarily, as the illusions that have long held people back from hospitals of all kinds in Egypt are fading. The greatest reason for this is that the Egyptian doctors who are employed there have become more knowledgeable and competent than they were in past years, and the standard of nursing has also improved due to increased attention to the training of nurses and the upbringing of junior staff.