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Show Chu P'ei Teh, came to Lin-tsing, and occupied our compound and public buildings in the city. General Chu and his chief of staff and high advisers were in the Wickes house, the general staff and aides-de-camp in the boys' school, and kitchens supply depots, and body-guards in the Laymen s Christian Training School. The officers and men were so near the hospital that they came to us in great numbers for medical care There were many cases of relapsing fever among the troops m town and. hardly a day passed but we treated several. Typhoid fever broke out, and for some time our main men's ward was lull o typhoid cases. Miss Nelson was detailed to devote herself exclusively to day-time care of these men. We were very glad that our whole staff had been inoculated against this disease six months before. We had a few cases of cholera and feared an epidemic, but we fortunately escaped. We saw only two cases which we thought to be typhus. Our out-patient department was open all day long, and we saw over a hundred soldiers every day We were treating but few wounds, to be sure, but the run of minor and serious conditions was amazing. Every week or so we sent to headquarters a list of the men in whom we had discovered pulmonary tuberculosis, suggesting that they be discharged. Impetigo and acute conjunctivitis were the commonest diseases of all. One day in the middle of June we received news that a medical unit had arrived and established a hospital in a large government school. The next morning their representatives came with stretchers and took away all the Nationalist soldiers we had, over twenty in all, more than half of them patients with tyhoid fever, leaving us only the northern soldiers we still had and civilians. One of them who was a captain managed to get brought back in half an hour and re-occupied his o d room. In three or four days we began readmitting our old patients one by one. Their friends had found them lying on the brick floor, without any one even to give them water to drink Our hospital was full again in less than a weeK. The worst of the typhoid patients we never saw again, however It was hardly a week more before the military hospital received orders to return to Nanking, and its patients were discharged and sent back to their units. Many of them came to us. Dr Hsu found it advisable to spend much of his time taking personal care of the illnesses of the generals and high officials, and cultivating their friendship. It was work which foreigners could not do and Dr. Cooke and I were content with the |
