The training school for nurses is two years old end, though the war conditions delay government registration, there are fourteen mrses in training—a new and needful profession for this frontier region.
A commendable degree of co-opera tion with the civil authorities is indicated by the conduct of a leprosarium where are thirty lepers, funds coming through the local government, but the conduct of the leprosarium ena medical treatments of the inmates being under the aegis of the Hospital. Were there room and funds no doubt 100 would apply for admission. are one storey save for the central cut-patient block, which is two-storey with a generous loft above.
Though bricks as a building material are almost unknown in these ts, they have been used throughout snd the resalt is pleasing to the eye. As the brick are of a fine quality, the buildings promise to be more permanent than if constructed of adobe. Supplies had to be secured locally. Trees the hills were With the practical completion of the plant, Dr. Oliver Lyth takes the post of superintendent, and his experience at Wenchow and elsewhere augurs well for the future of the work. Nurse Putian, Chins-born, is he efficient matron. A Miao mp, Chengtu graduate, is a member of the staff. Drs. Emma and Francis Tucker, loaned to aid in starting he new work, are remaining a few months longer.
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