Decision to Have No Mote Women Workers Sarurpay, June 18, lester that have been cava here It is evident from telegrams and
that the volunteer doctors and nurses who have gone to Hankow in the care of the thousands Song-chi's wounded soldiers i Honan, are which we }do not apprehend. Whatever these obstacles are, instructions have reached the office of the China Medical Board from Bishop Roots of the American Church Mission that qualified doctors and nurses Jare needed, but that men only are wanted, because of unexplained "political reasons." A letter written. some days before this telegram was Jdespatched also dwells upon the Jdificulty of finding accommodation for women workers, while it is Jgenerally known in missionary circles that two ladies who have been vainly struggling to get por-mission from the British authorities to go to Hankow in response, to the appeal for doctors and nurses have been unable to leave because the requisite permission has not come from the British authorities in Hankow, question of respectable and the new problem of the typhus epidemic would undoubtedly influence any decision in the matter of allowing ladies to go to Hankow to care for the wounded, but the phrase "political reasons" in Bishop Roots's message will be associated in everyone's mind with reports that have been published of the unruly behaviour of the convalescent soldiery, so it is very generally be= lieved that, at the moment, the Jemergency hospitals are not only uncomfortable but unsafe for women. This, of course, is only a surmise that cannot be' confirmed until the mail brings further dotally, It is interesting to note that sufficient funds have been found by the Chinese in Hankow to pay all expenses of volunteers, excepting of course, which would in-of the wounded has proved a distracting problem indeed for the authorities.
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