The cinema is unknown to most of the people round here, though there are good crowds whenever show baby films through a sheet fon 8 sun porch of the hospital. So was a big event when, for three nights running 2 three-hour exhibition was given in the great yamen courtyard, showing every Phase' of the Yellow River flood Aghting and refugee work. As soon as the $800 quota had been realized bby the sale of tickets, free entrance was permitted, and seething masses of humanity "crushed into every available square foot of space in the open courtyard.
The pictures were quite good and the illumination was provided by a specially Installed all engine and @ynamo. For a screen, the high wall of the prison was utilized and one could not help comparing the happy If indigent freedom of the surging crowd outside with the sorry lot of manacled criminals in the darkness within, Many' of these are probably vVietims of circumstance as much as the sufferers from flood and famine, and some day, one hopes, their con-ition will likewise be iMuminated {or the sympathetic enlightenment of their fellow-men, Fire In the Hospital Last Saturday evening there was unusual excitement from fire. For two days an ally smell had pervaded the mission compound, and was put down by some to the incinerator and by others to the mechanic burning Ying and others. his rags, Being overwhelmed with the work of the hospital, with over 50 in-patients, Dr. Craddock had found no time to investigate fully, until at 630 a coolie reported smoke Issuing from the new Ist-class patients' clothing store cupboard, in the room over the engine room, which is in the basement.
As the engine only runs at night, no blame was of first associated with that, "Across the corridor but also in the basement, the incinerator was burning merrily and though that seemed an impossible villain, it was forthwith extinguished. In the meantime the cupboard was burst open and the contents tumbled out. Some were scorched where they lay near the floor at the back. A large hole had been burat in the footboards and skirting, and it was obvious that the trouble lay in the chimney which passes up in that wall.
While some mounted the roof and poured buckets of water down the Chimney, which sizzled as it went, others directed the fire extinguishers Into the burnt area, and over the walls, which were too hot to touch, Men" were placed to watch the wretched wall all night to. make sure of no further outbreak.
Cancer and Tuberculosis Tt was surprising to read that on some authorities there is no cancer China. In the "British Medical Journal," that fallacy has been amply corrected, and here in Shantung we can say from tragic experience that cancer is not. uncommon. Unfor~ tunately, except chiefly in. cancer of the breast, the disease is usually. seen too late to operate, and some terribly heartrending cases have recently visiled the hospital. But tuberculosis is the greatest scourge here, In all its forms and in every degree, it baflles us again and again. Even an otherwise Innocent uleer or wound left to become chronic, will develop a tuberculous condition, proving beyond all doubt that great umbers of these badly nourished peasants are teeming with tubercle bacilli, even when apparently in good health, And they drink no milk either.
Although the hospital has only been built four years, it is becoming widely known, and as it caters for all people living within 100 1i radius, it is not surprising that its work grows quickly. An increase of 40 per cent, last year, over the previous year, of the number of inpatients is rapidly being surpassed, this year, and it has become imperative to increase the staff. Dr. Chang Kuo-shih, Cheeloo graduate of nine years! standing, has come to assist, and we Took for development at once in pre~ ventive and country clinic work. Later on we hope to institute midwifery classes to help the village women who have to depend ori local midwives.
The motor bus service increases enable "many to come to the hospital that could not otherwise make the journey. We are glad to report that parcel mail is now being carried by the buses s well as all other mail, This is a great boon for which the foreign community, at] Toast, is grateful,
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