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Show Lintsing statien-Kediea 1 report 2 Much ef the sickness and suffering mat oith en t h i s trip might have been prevented by a l i t t l e ""applied haewle4ge*ef pyysiolegy and hygiene,and much If i t could be traced to the extreme poverty of the people* l i e mother im/jm one home v i s i t e c ,wh© shared her room witii h»r &w„t;et*;,sat 0$ u n t i l after mid night winding her reels of home-made thread for market,and before light the next morning she wa« off walking ts another eafahUill&ge to sell them. Her only lamp oas a small smoktoone feci with bean eilf l That g he asked treatment for her eyes was net-iurprisin&- At another place the foreign ladies at t h e i r request were taken iate a weaving cellar#Entraaee was by a rickty lade der into a low room about eight by fourteen feet* It was timlj lighted by three small paper windows. In this room were fivo leoms and fcwe2spinning p'M wheels. They explained that in an. ordinary reem above ground sues hands jfjwjL would get tec cdld and stiff to weave,while ia thes# rooms wry l i t t l e neat makes i t paaalble to work,Then tee the bast cloth is sade with damp threaJ and here tHe thread dries elewly. ft poorly lighted p© rly~ vent Hated ree»f damp and cold and over-crewdedwith peeple;-could pulmonary tuberculosis ask a better field? Several cases of small**pea were brought te the clinics, and aethers with their own children la their arms crowded around see the COR condition of the sick c h i l d ' s eruption* Wet i l a ^ e v.-uant of cewr,rehen&4i,l^ in struct ion regarding the care ef fche(baaw}b#dy ,the value of fresh air and sunlight or the d e s i r a b i l i t y ef limiting eaatagian ee Id be £iveu in i t r ip llfce this,but one may hope that what was said will have some slight influenaA It would os wall te make such instruction more prominent in our"schools and in connection with station-classes* Br* Ma has made a beginning along t h i s/ advance by giving two lectures in the church, one en microbes and one ea tuberculosis* The religieue work ef the hospital hae never beOn done with more eameatm. ness ,At a auaibar ef places en the t r i p Mentioned it was very aeiieabla that the most attentive l i s t e n e r s and meat intelligent inieng the woman ,were thee who had boon patients in the hospital. Some brought relatives or friends Wheal they had interested .At one place where foreign woman hadfaorrwr b#e# se-Jkdem beanjand where the wife of the landing church-member s t i l l keyt her g idols in fehei^nlleh beside th -• bedroom door, a l i t t l e girl was pushed"" forward through the crowd as one who coulci recite the ten ^eJHMUSrihaaittg ano reac e M l i t t l e . H e r grandmother had boon at the hospital for ® month aa as nurse for/ the^children of a p a t i e n t . She wag not very quick with her re.id in-- but ems a anxious t© learn,and upon returning hema had taught her grandchild, a l l she p knew. It is certainly a cause far rejoiei >•; that fsen more than five hundred c i t i e s and v i l l a g e s nearly seventeen hundred patients have come to, the hospita^during the year,to return to tneir homes carrying with them seme//tea seeds of the message heard, 3. Mspectfull -y submitted . Susan B* TalLraon |
