Big New Hospital to be Built of Woosung 1
The scheme for the establishment of a National. Leprosarium Woosuing was outlined by officials of the Chinese Mission to at fa reception to members of the local Dress at the Chinese Bankers Club, Hongkong Road, on Tuesday, Deo, 26, Tt is to be build at a ce approximately $100,000, of which about $20,000 already" has. bee raised, and a piece of land of 108, now in area, valued at $20,000, has been secured by the Bfission, The need of a National Lepro~ sanium near Shaighal was empha: ised by the Rev. T. C, Wu, general secretary of the Mission, who stated that there are no less than 1,000,000 lepers in China, about one-third of the total in the world, Unfortuns ately, the attitude of the Chinese Government authorities towards this vexatious problem hitherto has been one of indifference, and, with the exception of Swatow, where ax Institute for lepers in maintained by, the municipal authorities, practical. {y'all the leper institutions in China ave "sponsored by foreign mission aries.
Mu, Wu said there were at least 300 known cases of leprosy im Shanghai alone and, according. tone of the world's greatest authori" tes, the actual number most, likely, would be ten times that figure, for Tepers usually did not wish to pre face, etter equipped, {01 lorre having) marked "the "annual South' of the
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