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Show It is fitting therefore that he should give the report this year. His quaint English and his fresh viewpoint on a medical missionary project are refreshing and his enthusiasm for the opportunity to serve is inspiring. His report follows. REPORT BY FRITZ BAUMGARTEN, DR. MED. Asked by the Superintendent of the Williams Porter Hospital to write a report about the work accomplished during the past year, I was not too pleased ; this not because there would be little to say about the work and about our patients, but because such a report has also to mention conditions here and they are not too good indeed. It would be so much pleasanter to tell how smooth, how successful, how progressive, and how easy our work went along last year, but it is certainly less pleasant to speak about increasing difficulties because we know that the report will be less enjoyable for the reader. But even so 1 started this little work, having in mind to assure our friends that all misfortune, all dilemma, in this country and among the Chinese people cannot discourage us, and to assure them that we will keep up our work done for those who need our help as badly as they need daily bread I started because we can say in spite of so many difficulties we had the opportunity to do what our tasks are and because it might be worse, saying that there are still places in the world where people work for progress and education. The year 1939 was a very busy one for the Hospital; first because we had more patients than in 4 |
