ABSTRACT
A NEW HEALTH FOUNDATION FO R NATIONAL LIFE IN EGYPT AND T U R K E Y
E g y p t is a land of striking contrasts, presenting greater difference in the levels of life than one sees in any other country of the East except India-the highest strata of society living in luxury and leisure truly Oriental ; the lowest carry ing on a bare hand-to-mouth daily struggle for existence in the mud of the Nile valley. The effete higher level that practically owns Egypt is perhaps one-tenth of the whole population; the great unwashed lower level is the ninetenths. The national problem of Egypt is the problem of the nine-tenths. There are ample evidences that the extent of this problem in reference to health is realized, and attempts are being made to solve it both by public and private agencies.
