Our full losses cannot yet be ascertained, but it is evident from the report of the Chinese doctor that fully $3,000 will be required to refit with the necessary drugs, dressings, instruments, apparatus, ete. A most serious Joss is the apparatus of the laboratory: this will need replacing as soon as possible. Our position on the edge of vast marshy areas makes it one of our chief works to deal with the heavy infections with animal parasites that prevail. Hookworm is found in practically all the people, and is the cause of a large part of the general low standard of physical health found there. In all in-patients, no matter what the major disease to be treated is, routine microscopic examinations are found to be a necessary adjunct to treatment. We have, for some time, been gathering equipment and apparatus, ete., for mass treatment and preventive work in small selected communities, as a prelude to wider campaigns. But alas it all seems to have gone. A detachable boat motor, for work
amongst the equipment destroyed. in the lake areas, is unfortunately Operating room equipment is badly damaged. Patients are having to be turned away, and that at a time when we could do so much to mitigate suffering.
Much as we may detest the sen-soless men who have done the damage, stil] more may we com-mise rate the large and peaceful farming and trading population who have had to bear the brunt of this outrage.
Is it not possible to show these people that the foreigner can pity as well as cotest, can aid as well as blame?
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