AoW York Glove. int Abe tity that shows the Rest per- : eve . | atagy uiCides woken, ig. jrate in Chinese cities, if not in the rw a he a country as a. whole, is double that in western cities. Especially is this the 10r 'every case when we consider the enormous ] AVVO population, or user twice] infant mortality. fate Of ne eutice country. 1bvs-twl dnd tor 1542 the leading wm the percentage Ahe population consists largely os Uttiuans. ihe suicide rate in L0DOK- NeW Lor; 20.2 Muwaukee, 20.1; Lin. ark, 1i.v, brooklyn, tained the standing required for prac- Hoboken, 30.0 Uakland, 25.0; } 80 'jie standing req } "08 Haverhul, Mass., A St. Lous, 23.0 ; | tremendous need of the heathen, and "2.9; New York, 21.0; Lin | has responded by consecrating himself, cnnati, 20.00; Newark, A.0, teresting statistics on the subject | but for his whole life, to the work of sweides wn the United States dur carrying the gospel into the dark have bam gather places of the carth. Before coming to Bacon Baey, of | China, he has obtained as much prac- * Ma comnection with | tical experience as possible in the prac- Unent of statistics and soei- | tice of medicine and surgery; if possi- ology. Lhe number of cases to which | ble he has acted as house physician has been wade is 10,000. | and surgeon in some large hospital. He Uailey has classined them gs to | has in addition taken Special training Age, ex, locality and tune. 'dhe pre- in eye diseases and skin diseases, and dominant suicidal age have been between More sui cunoatd, 15.0; New, 10.4; Boston, 15.0, thirty and forty | sible, because the medical missionary red by mgr | must be his own specialist. Ile must by those not mgr | frequently work without help or advice the (V,000 cases hs dy" | Warried medical or surgical. No mem did those | 2% of the mission will come into clos. like condition, | "C relations with all classes of the vorced | Chiese than the medical missionary. ition. [pe medionl missionary will come of day most down; therefore he should be free in il t Fel under | the work, his influence the Chi- $ i | I fs 2 : on z / Professor of Chemistry, R.C.S. Se rem Cote EF i Hi i E 3 I | be of the interior | available for preaching to patients or to the | the general public every day in the ad min- | Week. Here the assembled patients His ambitions | hear the gospel preached for at least cunning was [ balf an hour So i Ti Ei 7 ] F & . He was a |average Chinese patient has of the a pan-Slavist, jealous that dared a king: | anaesthesia, and by their ive cf y but he ismarck and gave | is, the Chinese bear surgical opera- OR to opportunity, | tions remarkably well i £ = F to take their prescriptions, majority of houses wi Aor practitioner, who has taken the regu- lar college course in medicine, and ob- He bas had impressed upon him an overpowering sense of the not for a short term of years only, ton as many other specialties as pos- from any one; must rely wholly upon in making important diagnoses, os- | and carrying out difficult treatment, whether - He should, therefore, be kind, tactful true 10d considerate. into very close contact with all classes i , from the highest officials | conversation. He should be able to SUl- § preach readily, because he must preach is patients in dispens- the | nege Somuubicy in which he lives, the in ure i 0, Begin- aid for his life-long work Among hems. contin- | all will be directly affected by his three | freedom or otherwise in the Chinese falling | language. If there is sufficient land the hospital ' 4 y day. of | It is surprising how little fear the f | Operating-room and of operations. But n this Soutien explained by their total ignorance of the dangers of physicians and Surgeons abound, with specialists in almost ev- | department. The only qualification bid i the ability a, peo- We are all familiar with the un- cleanly habits of the Chinese. For the average individual baths are rare events, especially in winter. The great the Chinese people live in without floors, often without , usually with leaky roofs. Hence the dirt and dampness above and below. Hindows Je of paper oF of boards. Hence dark interiors, an lati of dirt avery whare. and dirt always carries microbes and dis- ease. "How do the Chinese manage to survive amidst such extremely unsani- -------- tary surroundings and unfavorable | "Jersey. Towm Holds The conditions ?" They do not survive. Hon Record. They fall ill and die, at a rate which A would appal us if we could only know the figures, I believe that the death: from amy other foreigner, tive evangelist. The work of this man The medical missionary, as we think of him nowadays, is a man (or wom- an, as the case may be), ho Best and swcides, heir 4 foremost is a consecrated Christian o 4 Wih faus, wate 4s worker; who is an earnest, intelligent - student of the Bible; and who has had u . , ! pexperience in Christian work in the ok Lhucago, 23.4; + Uakiand, "ga. ; [ pxbericnce He is a qualified medical girl, with a small aboess. After some ed healed, and the father came to ex- press his thanks. Said he: "I shall al- Vays come to you after this. The last time my child had a sore like that, I had Mr. Blank (naming a Chinese doo- tor), and it cost me over four thous- and cash and three Pairs of satin ministerial missionary equally ordained of God; why should should be erected in detached buildings | 'BY not be equally ordained by the ants, and other things being equal, the better trained they are, the more do. For the present, the only way to get native assistants is to train them one's self. work for the work's sake, and it is so easy to fill the wards to over-flowing, and then allow the out-patients to gradually increase in number, until wards; he will teach the cate chism, hymns and Scripture portions to classes of several or of one. A very important division of his work is | that of following and visiting at re- lntervals at their homes all those patients who have shown an in terest in the gospel. Self-support is not possible at the inning of any work. But in the Course of a year or two, as the name and fame of the hospital become es tablished, the physician way begin to ask for fees and aim to increase his income slowly but steadily, till in the course of a few years' time his insti tution shall have become partly or wholly self-supporting. Half of the in-patients in the gener- wards will pay the cost of their food, say 1,600 or 2,000 cash a month. Another percentage will pay a part, while not wore than 25 per cent. to 35 per cent. are umable to pay anything. | believe it is the gen- eral experience that the patient who pays even 100 cash a month is much more grateful for what is done for him than is the man who gets every- thing free. There is usually very little difliculty in getting the Chinese to pay at least the cost of their food. 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