The Archive · 1938

Forced Out by the War

On September 16, 1998 a group of 45 lepers left their palatial quarters! at Tazang with only the barest necessaries of life, Some clothing, some bedding a few pots and pans were hastily piled into what trucks! were available and under the leadership ¢f Dr. C. L. Wang, their superintendent, were transferred to servants quarters in the then Chinese Jcontrotied Chungsan Hospital at Feng-Vang-chiao. All supplies, records, books and equipment, had to be lett behind. The things that might have led to self support, such as ripened fields of vegetables, dairy stock, chickens, carpenter shops, industrial work all at one moment became total loss to the Mission to Lepers.

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