Our readers will remember the account winch we gave last yenr of the opening of this most valuable institution, We have now received from Main the third annual report of the Hospital, accom pa by plane and elevations of the building. Tt is a very well-designed and haudsom two-stonyd structure, with a large amount of accommodation, and every requisite for the proper treatment of the sick, contain-i does besides several small wards, ical, surgical, opium and female ratifying to see from the Governor of the province downwards, have ort that the native officials, from the taken great interest in, and subscribed to the work; how extensive it is we may the fact that the cost of the 48, fittings and furnishings has been thirteen thousand dollars. A vative new paper concludes a soticn of it by saying "The Chi es" and foreigners all came ere was not a person in Hang-did not praise the work, snying, it wea better than avy of the ho pitals in Hangchow." How much th natives shown by Dr, Main's statistics, There were 7,931 out-patients treated in 1885, of Of whom 2,082 were women; 374 inpativute, of whom 68 were woman; and 79 of whom 31 were women, In ad-Gition to these, 180 patients were visited rheic homes in the city, und 1,460 in the the total number of visits paid by ts to the Dispensary being 13,040. Dr. Main notices that chronic cases coustautly come before him, the patients havi previously "gone the round of the native phy: spent all their money, eaten medicine by the pound, and been pronounced by all to be incurable: they o-me to the hospital as a last resource." The great prevalent in diseases, as a reault of the wan eraonal cleanliness, is noted, and Dr. Main says, ' we cannot but long for the time when the dread of water shall be eradicated from the Chinese mind, and the Order of the Bath conferred upon the citizens of the Celestivl Empire." Of opium-smokers, 123 were admitted to be oured during 1885, and all but 6 remained for the prescribed period of twenty days, but Dr. Main does not venture to remuiued steadfast after they left the has pital. The section on opium-smoking is Jooulupanied by some striking wood-cuts representing the progress of the opium habit, Tomiuding uvafter slong interval, of George Colonial Surgeon in Hongkong h it on record that no bad consequences follow a sudden enforced abstention from the drug in the Hongkong gaul; De. Mai in very different; he snys undertaking, felt trough cutting off the drug at tim cure, but om account of the long weakness, unlittiu following their occupation, some ti nths, their often poor constitution sorely ing the accustomed stimulant." Of the seventy-vine suicides, wil by opiam, sixty-two were caused by quarrels with mother-in-law, ete. We find from. the. report that in the training college attached the hospital, fourteen native students have been receiving i Dr. notices over evangelistic we: which he is expected to combine with hi medical labours, and devote himself solely to making money, We see from a specimen exami paper given, that the instruction at the training school is by no means wanting in thoroughness, De. Main adds to his of mali disease; but we fail to find any record in the report of the results of the treatment in the hospital; there are no statistics of the numbers of patients cured, relieved deceased. Mra. Main's little book of notes on the work done in the Woma's Ward of the hospital, is as interesting xs the larger report, Chess brief remarks will shew what a yood and philanthropic work is being done in Hangchow under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society.
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