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Show TREASURER & BUSINESS MANAGER'S REPORT Albert C. Hausske Dr. Baumgarten has already referred to the difficulties of financing our hospital, which is true of all medical missionary work here in China today. Both my Chinese colleague, Mr. Chang, and myself, have had almost "nightmarish" conferences regarding this matter, and in spite of what appears like a favorable financial situation at the close of the year, problems are already looming up big for the year 1940. Rising prices, both of local supplies and of those which must be purchased from outside, bid well to give us more serious concern, making our job anything but a sinecure. Long before drafting this report (March 1940,) with the single stroke of the pen, as it were, in less than three months, $ 8846.39 was paid to outside firms alone for supplies of one kind and another, including $2172.13 for a new X-Ray tube, without which the doctors could not work. But I must not paint too gloomy a picture, for somehow or other we must and will carry on - and with the help of all who read this report may we not be alone in the carrying of this load Your prayers and gifts are needed. - 25 - |
