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Show Hopes for the Future Dr. Cooke has dreams for this growth. She hopes some day to have three more wards -one a tuberculosis ward where little boys and girls with crooked backs and painful limbs will be healed. Out on a glassed-in porch they will get sunbaths. Here, too, day and night will sleep pulmonary cases. Another would be the maternity ward with a nursery where the baby can have its daily bath. This would teach the mothers the value of proper care for their children, thereby preventing the appalling infant mortality. The third ward, besides having rooms for patients, would have a classroom for nurses, with charts and models and demonstration apparatus, so that instruction need no longer be given in the doctor's office or in the ward with patients. These buildings and the operating room should be lighted by electricity instead of the little glass lamps which so easily cause fire. Then when the electricity was in someone would see the need of an X-Ray machine and send one. "Because of these enlarged accommoda-. tions for patients," Dr. Cooke goes on to write, "I see in my dream an increased staff of two Chinese women physicians, a Chinese head nurse, twelve graduate nurses, an X-Ray operator, a matron for the nurses' home, two evangelists working in the hospital constantly, and two who will be in the country following up the women who have left the hospital, and seeing that they are put in touch, and kept so, with the nearest group of Christians. I dream of ninety per cent of our patients becoming followers of Christ. These |