Millions for Health

In the ten years since it was chartered, May 14, 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation has expended $76,757,040, roughly divided as follows:

Public Health, $18,188,838.

Medical Education, $24,716,859.

War Relief, $22,298,541.

All other philanthropic work, $10,445,628.

Administration, $1,107,174.

Its largest single gifts were for Peking Union Medical College, which it built, $10,572,976, and Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, $7,096,088.

While the purpose of the Foundation includes " the well-being of mankind throughout the world," its work is now concentrated on public health and medical education. It has carried on preventive activities, particularly against hookworm, malaria, yellow fever, in cooperation with 27 American states and 50 foreign governments.

The Foundation's outstanding achievements during 1922 included: a pledge of $2,000,000 toward the site, building and equipment of a school of hygiene in London; endowment of chairs of medicine and surgery in the University of Hongkong; emergency aid by medical literature, laboratory supplies, fellowships, etc., to institutions in Germany, France, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Austria and other European centers; support of international disease -reporting service and interchange of health personnel through the Health Section of the League of Nations.