CONCERNING FOREIGN 
 MISSIONS 
 
CONC ERNING FOREIGN MISSIONS 
 
 The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania conferred its degree upon 
 the first woman who ever went to the foreign field as a medical missionary — 
 Dr. Clara Swain, of the class of 1869. Since that time more than one hun- 
 dred and twenty-five (125) medical missionaries have been graduated by this 
 College. Special facilities exist at the Woman’s Medical College of Penn- 
 sylvania for the education of missionary students, and many of the best 
 known and most successful of the medical women now in the foreign field 
 claim this College as their Alma Mater. It is often said that the name and 
 fame of the College are better appreciated in foreign lands than in the quiet 
 city of Philadelphia where the College originated and where it unosten- 
 tatiously carries on its work from year to year. At this time when a special 
 effort is being made to strengthen and uphold the hands of the fine old 
 institution, the men and women who are particularly concerned in mis- 
 sions abroad should not forget the important part the College is playing 
 in this phase of the world’s work, and they should be moved to do what- 
 ever they can to preserve and sustain an institution so indispensable to 
 the best interests of missions. 
 
 Information has been received from an authoritative source in reference 
 to the number of medical women sent out by all the Boards in the United 
 States to the foreign field during the last twelve years. Tabulated data 
 given below show how T large is the proportion educated at this College. 
 
 During the twelve years between 1903 and 1915, the several colleges 
 in the United States granting the medical degree to women have pre- 
 pared women medical missionaries for the foreign field in the numbers 
 indicated below: 
 
 Each one of twenty-seven colleges prepared one. 
 
 (Many of these colleges were of inferior rank and are not now in existence or have 
 merged with other institutions.) 
 
 Each of the following colleges prepared two: 
 
 Rush Medical College, University of California, Drake University, 
 Cornell University, Trinity University, Hahnemann Medical College. 
 
 Northwestern University prepared Jour. 
 
 University of Michigan prepared five. 
 
 Johns Hopkins University Medical School prepared six. 
 
 American Medical Missionary College (Chicago) prepared eight. 
 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Illinois, prepared ten. 
 
 Institutions not specified prepared thirteen. 
 
 The Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania 
 Prepared Thirty-One. 
 
women physicians, of whom 31 were graduated from this College. Boards 
 
 OUTLINE MAP SHOWING LOCATIONS BY COUNTRIES OF GRADUATES OF 
 THE WOMAN’S MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA 
 
 who have served (or are serving) as medical missionaries in foreign fields or who, as natives, have practiced among their own people. 
 
 FORTY-TWO GRADUATES IN CHINA ; FORTY-ONE IN INDIA.