Wasi, Mar, 17.
St. Andrew's Hospital in partic-talar' and the whole foreign community in general rejoices in the arrival of Dr. Walter Pott and his family. Dr. Pott gave up an excellent position in the United States to return to St. Andrew's Hospital, where the need of his services could hardly be exaggerated—as the demand for hospital care increases 8 rapidly as does the difficulty of procuring competent Chinese doctors offered by Mission Hoxey house has been lurged "and renovated for the Potts to occupy; and we are ly att eagerly watching another American home take: shape before our eyes, The small bungalow, originally built for a bachelor Chinese doctor, has been raised to two storeys, to accommodate two interns and two male nurses, at the present time, and later, a married Chinese doctor.
Meningitis continues to rage with unabated fury. During March up to the present date 33 cases have been treated in St. Andrew's Hospital and this of course {s only an index of the vast number who either die without care or go to one lof the Chinese practitioners.
Gun shot wounds are maintaining their usual popularity, one of the latest instances being five men shot one man, in a tea hou before he Yeached the hospital, and the murderer has been put ints prison.
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