Mention also made in the booklet of the invaluable medical work done by the Franciscan sisters of the Convent of the Sacred Heart. were some hospitals, but "it is ncisean Sisters together with ihe Jesuit Priests who make contact between the hospital and the refugees in their houses. "They are provided by the clinic with simple medicines, stich as aspirin, bicarbonate of soda, iodine and antiseptic plasters. It is they whom the people get to know and depend upon; as they go, in white nurse's gowns, through the general.
nines of the streets, Chinese patients will dart from the doorways and, extending lean necks or discoloured arms, request some more of the medicine that did them good last week. In the houses, the healthy members of the family spring to their feet as the Sisters enter, gather round the sick person's bed, snd with much gesticulation and polite laughter explain the cause of the disease. One n impressed by the naturally excellent manners of the Chinese, from the way in which the Sisters are received in the most desperately poor and dirty rooms, and the chorus of thanks when.they leave, in which the sick man, sometimes too far gone to speak a word till then, always tries to join.
"It is the who locate the serious cases and try tò transfer them to hospital, or persuade them: o visit the clinic, but as they have no money posal they cannot supply the rickshaw fare for the poorest patients, or the hospital may have no space, or the patient may refuse to come. In addition to the medicines they also distribute a thousand pieces of whole wheat bread each da which the children expect am for in crowds. This basket have—how do you expr finish' said the French Sisteg as she ye out the pieces from "bottom. work is made breaking -becausegof perso with the refugee families: on their successive v the children of a fatherless family die one by one, lastly the mother also."
hose are a few examples of the good work which has been carried on by the French in relation to refugee (Continued on next column)
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