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Show rather the lack of it) they have steadily prayed hoped, and laboriously worked for the new dav that was coming. y With the removal of the station to the railway city of Tehchow, fourteen miles to the north a complete reconstruction is necessitated. Funds 'for this have come in slowly and with singular difficulty, considering the nature of the work and its past successes. Dr. Tucker has drawn up a list of the sums needed for the equipment and completion of the new plant, and anyone who knows the cost of these items in America will see at a glance how mueh is here to be had for a slight expenditure of money. The effort, after long, patient and intelligent study and conference, has been to make a dispenlary .and a hospital which will not merely serve as a place to cure Chinese, but as a model to show the Chinese how they must plan to build and to work when - at no distant day the medical work of China is in the hands of the Chinese themselves. For ages the Chinese have built all their structures facing the south, because the Emperor was on the north of the Empire and he "faced the south". Mondern science shows that sunlight is the deadly foe of germs, but no Chinese house can get sunlight except at noon in quantities adequate to be curative. This can be done only by facing buildings to the south-east or south-west, so as to have sun in every part of every edifice at some time of the day, and on every part of the area about the edifices as well. The new plant at Tehchow is all to be put up on this plan, and its usefulness as a hospital will be matched by its importance as an object-lesson on the necessity in China of an about-face to this extent in all buildings and in all cities if tuberculosis and other fell disease are to be-not cured, but-prevented. ( 20 ) |