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Show ON BAMBOO STREET •yjwameiu. • • • • ' " ' • . . . . : ' ' • o ••^'A.y^0' -.'•->y* *• i ^^^^^^^^^s^^^^^8 i • - -/y^ ••••',1 A RECEPTION COMMITTEE BEFORE Boxer days, medical work was carried on at this station by Dr. E. R. Wagner and Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Perkins. Their work is remembered and even now when the women of the station go on the streets, they often hear some one say, "There comes Mrs. Perkins!" Dr. Susan B. Tallmon came to China in December, 1905, and in February, 1908, opened a dispensary on Bamboo Street with an appropriation of one hundred and twenty-five dollars from the Woman's Board of the Interior. We could spare only one room for a Dispensary in the crowded court in which we and our servants and some of the native helpers lived, but it was on the busy street where people were passing and repassing all day long. This room, sixteen feet square, was general dispensary, private examining room and drug room combined. Here Dr. Tallmon did her work for a year and a half. Her only assistants were an empirically trained man, and a promising young woman whom she taught to do many things. Besides these there were two evangelists, a man and a woman who preached to the patients in the chapel while they waited for treatment. As the chapel was unhealed, the patients preferred to sit outside on sunny days, and the faithful preacher used to take his stool and sit out in the yard too, and preach to them. Page ihree |