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Show Money may be sent direct to the above address in the form of a New York draft, or to Mr. F. H. Wiggin, Treas., American Board of Com. for Foreign Missions, 14 Beacon St., Boston. If sent in the latter way, the sum should be plainly indicated as "For Tehchow Hospital Equipment." 1913 STATISTICAL REPORT Inpatients: Men 527; Women 271; Total 798. Surgical operations: Major 296; Minor 804. Dispensary treatments: Men 10,132; Women 5,342, Total 15,474. Tung Chow, Peking, China, May, 1914 To the Friends of the American Board. and to Friends of China; Greeting :- The Pang Chuang Station of the North China Mission was opened (largely in consequence of the increased accessibility of the people of that region through famine relief in 1878) in the year 1880. At that time the medical work in China was in its earlier infancy. There were very few physicians, and very little equipment. Dr. Henry D. Porter, one of the missionaries assigned to this interior station, began at once the curing of the body, and this was soon found to be far more trust-worthy and permanent than transient interest in relief from a receding famine. There was no hospital building, and but a minute dispensary. A tumble-down adobe structure was made to do duty for the few inpatients of that time, yet from these humble and (regarded from a ( 18 ) |