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Show 'He has taken on a l l the ordering -f supplies, and correspondence incident t h e r e t o . Also, as always, he i s tie "good angel" in g e t t i n g more equifaanti and of b e t t e r quality and convenience, made, so that wheels" run mere smoothlv Besides, he helpaDr Woods with operative work, and i t subject to emergency c a l l s at a l l hours of day and n i g i t . (One awaits his return fron Church right-now'.) He i s open to c a l l s for consultation by us a l l , gets out drugs for the Dispensary and Hosp daily, and answers not a few o u t - c a l l s . So far, I have not responded to many of these, si ways urging the patient to come into Fosp, where more can be done for the patient. Care of a l l women and children, are imne9 in Hosp; much o b s t e t r i c s (had two babies born within an hour of each other on one Sun, and a few days after m - other one!j : I see a l l the special cases that appeal to me with special t i c k e t s , each forenoon. These a n nearly all women and children. Dr Wu, the Fiao M D, sees special men cases, and/takes charge of the BIG daily c l i n i c , held each ? I for the poor - who, t g t k are^egion" ! He often c a l l s me into cons u l t a t i o n . Over the big mass oflpeople who need daily dressings, Graduate nurses Smith, (Hiss Hicks taking/her place while the l a t t e r was on vacation for 2f afcaj and Peng, and myself have charge. I'm asked to help the- two n^w pharmacists compound drugs, too, d a i l y . I s u b s t i t u t e d for several days with a l l the daily p a t i e n t s , special and usual, for Dr Wu. Fortunately, I do not have r e s p o n s i b i l i t y with accounts. .Everybody works hard in the Hosp. For one thing, there are, as yet, no men nurses, and there were only two student (women; nurses to help over-worked Miss Smith, when we came'.! TVo more young g i r l s were taken on r e c e n t l y , and, today, the beginning of the mo two mere! The problem has heen to get you^ng women of education to do such J work - which, h i t h e r t o , they have classed as "menial". Right now, we have more applications of graduates of Higher Primary (8th grade, in Amer.,] than we can accept. I find that the Jr Middle School here, is co-educational , to my surprise - the Church School. There i s a LARGS Higher Primary G i r l s ' Sch wnose sessions open for the f a l l term, tomorrow. The Bovs' opened a week ago. ^Ivery ambitious boy and g i r l longs to go e i t h e r to Oh' eng tu, Sz., p r e f e r a b ly or, to study nursing in the Church Mission Hosp at Yunnanfu, However, thert I t no regular nurses' training School, as yet, in the Province. I t is now 5 P M, and there has been one emergency after another today Last Sun, Miss }?eng$ yr father, and I took time off to go to the ^iss4on"« a "Country House", 25 l i d i s t a n t , and in the f o o t h i l l s of a lovely Kt ranee to tne East oi us, and a l i t t l e ^oy n o r t h , ft had two horses, and a chair ( r a t tan, and Ttry l i g h t , covered with o i l - c l o t h stretched over hoops of"bamboo, l i k e the 'Covered Wagon"; carried by two men. Kiss Peng and I took t u m t ritV ing lony or in the chair. The Goldsworthys'horse Miss Hicks now has to use Yr fat her rode i t . Dr Woods elate has a horse, and Mr Wsy l i k e w i s e . The lattsr uses h i s to carry on h i s country work with the Btttt, or Lolo t r i b e s people . a very rewarding work. Dr Woods l i v e s outside the c i t y , and r i d e s his horse i n t o t h i s place every day. We are only a short way inside the Bast c i t y gate. • . °22Jj£ xfe YmY imP ° r t £ f f i t things to be done was to helo the Mission de- " ciaef/HHJa the new Hosp was to be located. Some wanted i t within the c i t y , if p o s s i b l e , to be more convenient to the people, e s p e c i a l l y women and children But, the premises are not nearlv large enough, and no room for expansion. We could not secure extra land n t a * nor eny anywhere else within the c i t y that was larger m area. A new s i t e had been purchased adjoining the plot the CtaffeJt or ki s s i on, rather - owns outside the East gate, to the IT E, and 4 mi l e i frm the g a t e . The s i t e is i d e a l , an<fi has the added advantage of p u t t i n g All the foreign workers together, save Miss Squire, in charge of the G i r l s ' Primary and Higher Primary Schls - hard by the Hosp. The l a t t e r was b u i l t L OBG ago, J and i s inadequate m every way. fe l a s t CAB' get ale**! There i s one r e e l - dence near the Hospital, sunons<%dly a residence for' the foreign I D At'ores ent i t i s occupied by the two nurses, Misses .Smith and Hicks, and ourselves.'' while Dr Woods, unmarried, l i v e s with the Cb^&ITttie Yunnan D i s t r i c t ^ TTud°I p a t h . HITS Hv s t a r t e d for 3-hai, and England before we arrvd - on Jul "2nd. She f. I S i 1 e n ^ s , and a^OVu^LY garden, of vegs, and flowers. Mrs H has "chromi c dysentery. Fell, i t is decided to build on the s i t e outside the c i t y - a |
