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Show Hopes for the Future T5*ft-Cooke has dreams-for this growths last four workers are my dearest hope, and we shall have them before ten years have 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 accommodations 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 passed. The two at the hospital will, besides their purely religious work, teach the women and children to read, and will have classes in some simple industry, such as basketry, that those who are bedridden for months may happily occupy their time. The nurses also will give them instruction in hygiene and simple sanitation. "The monthly program of the hospital staff will include health and sanitation lectures in the city and nearby country, lectures with charts, models, statistics, etc., that will inspire the Chinese of Lintsing to clean up their dirty streets and yards, and keep them so. "We shall have dispensaries not only in the city proper, but in a number of outlying villages, where simple diseases will be treated, and from which patients needing further care may be sent into the hospital. "Already you have given us the running water system, the bathrooms, equipment, the nurses' home, and the house for your foreign doctor and nurse. We are joyously grateful, but we want to keep on carrying the joy forward." What work could be more Christlike than this? Dr. Cooke has proved herself in every way to be big enough to carry it on. This is our work, also, and we are sharing in it by giving. (Pevse- ~ I Ventures and Adventures at Lintsing Staff of Woman's Work at Hospital WOMAN'S BOARD OF MISSIONS FOR THE PACIFIC 411 Phelan Building, San Francisco |