The largo majority of these leper inatitutiong throughout China are maintained by vatious_forelgn mi Hong, of which the Mission to Lepers Cnternational, plays easily the larg cat Tole, "An Smportant side of work amongst lepers is the country clini, which is the only practical means of {ching teproay in bull, "AE present, fil the. settlements in' China put together do not provide for more {hen one third of one percent. of the lepers. 'Since It lo impossible for mest lopers to travel targo distances every' week (0a city. hospital for {reatment, einieal work in the. villager themselves lo of frst rate porianee. "At present, however, this Work Ts only im the initial stages, village 20" miles" south of swatow, there is the beginning oft elinle which Is drawing early eases of Jeprosy. from all over the country side. tu Shantung, four "village Clinics ate held at country. chapels, while. a" steessful "elite' has been tarried' on at Hongkew for. some Years, the patients being mostly tin migrants from North Kiangsu," The Swatow' Hospital has organized a moat miceessiul clinic for a number of years, other clinics in the neigh-Bourhood being held at Chaoyang trid Kityang, "At Jukao, in Kiangsu, there is avelinle hold In connection with the Christien Teformed: Church. 'These elmies are in dation to. the large, number of clinics attached. city' Hospitals all over' the leprosy sre. vents Only one leper Instiution in China permits marriage among lepers, who, In"other Institutions, are This institution Is situated nan. In Korea, one "of the leper homes provides houses for married lepers. "the. alsease seems "10 sowing an increase in Hupeh present time, and there has been definite increase In Swatow since the ery severe typhoon about fourteen years axe.
'Typleat of the mission hospitals who fare engaged in the treatment Topera fs that at Hangchow, founded by Dr. Duncan Main in 1887. As this 18 one of the (we fully organized leper establishments in' China, 0d ription of its work might prove of interest, The leper hospital situated away from the main hospital buildings tu. the city, on the. slopes of a hill Overlooking "the famous Neeaio Pagoda. There are two main Duildings, for" men and.~ women, a chapel, a smolt bultding housing the vanced cases, anda shoo, addition to a playground.
One Leper Cured Annually The Hangchow Leper Hospi house about 120" patients, mort of whom are already "in an advanced age' whicn they" enter the Institue tion. About one leper, however, cured every year. "The Leper Hosple {a fa "Mranced by" the Mission to Lepers, (International), "It is soon to be moved further out onto the Hanechow-Shanghai road, "as considered. by the authorlies' to. be {o0' clone to the ity.
The problem of leprosy in China ramaing a very "dificult one The disease" was eradicated. from England through "Improvement in the general health of the people, and it could be banished from 'China if "proper ourlshment and healthy living cone Aitions were general, 'The disease is curable If caught in the earlier stipes Simply' by putting' the. patient under hose' conditions, although. chaulmorgen all, injected periodically Into the affected "parts, also" helps overcome the dlvease, Meanwhile, thousands of lepers remain. without medical assistance of any. kind. THe development of country lines Is of paramount importance, although, {cording to Dr. Maxwell, If one. per ent, of the "lepers. In 'China were cused ¢ntasiltuttons, that. would be as much as could'be expected over a period of years, At prose according to approximate figures, on every 400 Chinese ls'a leper' The scourge' which affected. the West in the Middle Ages, causing' hundreds of men to be driven out like tals from their homes, has yet. to be stamped out from among ihe Chinese
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