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Show 48 NORTH CHINA MISSION Tungchou Sungrhou Medical Report The Medical Work of the station was ably carried on by Dr. Love during the greater part of the year, as Dr. Ingram was away on furlough. The number of severe cases, both among the foreigners and natives, was far more than usual. Dr. Sheffield developed a serious brain trouble, the effects of which still remain. Miss Andrews, during the-first part of the year, had several most critical attacks which caused no small amount of anxiety. Dudley Porter contracted dysentery and hung between life and death for days. Dr. Love devoted himself to the case and was rewarded by seeing the little patient gradually regain strength ; but the shock was so profound that he was unable to regain his full vigor; the cool weather of the fall did not give any stimulus in the right direction, and in November his mother took him to America. We are happy to state that the change has done all that could be desired. On October 5, Helen Corbett was born. Dr. Ingram and family arrived in Peking, from America, on Sept. 21. The day before arriving, Isabel Ingram became ill on the train and on the 22nd, she developed a scarlet fever rash. She and her father went into quarantine in Peking, and remained there for one month. The case was very light and she recovered without any complications. Measles of rather a serious type have been epidemic throughout North China during the last few months: and this disease was followed by whooping-cough. Small-pox has been unusually prevalent and a senior iu the College contracted the disease and died. It would seem as if the foregoing were diseases enough for one year, but at the present time typhus fever is wide spread in this region and several foreigners have already succumbed to it. HOSPTTAT M/T>PTT The number of operations has not been large, as Dr. Love was expected to devote the greater part of his time to the study of the language. Thus the greater part of the operating work was done by the native assistant, Mr. Tsui Shih-feng. A soldier was brought |