No. 211 ' 3lyv\, Ynis-' ■ I rvtr OUR PLAN FOR THE CHURCH general HOSPITAL, WUCHANG A STATiEMENT of the MOST URGENT NEED in the DISTRICT OF HANKOW ^'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my breth- ren, ye have done it unto Me'' THE board of missions 281 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK For copies of this leaflet address Literature Department, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York. Ask for No. 211. a THE PRESENT CHURCH GENERAL HOSPITAL, MEN’S DEPARTMENT This faces west; the new buildings will face south. From the position in zvhich the picture is taken one would be looking tozvard the rear of the nezv buildings. They lie upon and beyond the site of this present building. The sky-line beyond ts Serpent Hill, from the crest of which the guns of the revolu- tionaries drove away the Viceroy on the night of October 10, 1911. The open space in the foreground marked by the bit of statuary tve do not ozvn. THE HOUSE THAT NOBODY BUILT By the Rt. Rev. Logan H. Roots, D.D. T his title is a true description of one great medical work in Central China. It is being carried on, literally, in a house that nobody built ! Congeries of Chinese buildings, grading from bad to worse, sheds patched with mats, basement bedrooms and other intolerable condi- tions, surround some of the most de- voted workers which the Church has sent forth, and hamper and mar the efficiency of their work. The fact that all this is an outcome and result of missionary success, makes the situation the more deplor- able. Because our snug little hospital work known as the Elizabeth Bunn Memorial, and our work for men known as St. Peter’s Hospital, were successively crowded out of the com- pound by the rapid growth of Boone University, and were at the same time beckoned by the opportunity for larger work in a more needy part of the city, a situation which can no longer be endured has arisen. In the early days of missions it was necessary to do medical work in a very primitive way. Small, unsanitary na- tive buildings were usually all that could be secured, and one doctor, with almost no equipment, had to contrive somehow to treat several times as many patients as he could possibly take adequate care of. It was deaden- ing to his scientific training, exhaust- ing to his health, and not infrequently withering to his spiritual life. Yet many medical missionaries, under these almost insuperable difficulties, showed such consecration that they opened for Christianity doors other- 3 4 The Church General Hospital, Wuchang, China wise completely barred. For such men and women, and the wonderful work they did under such circum- stances, there can be only unbounded admiration. But times have changed in China. Educational agencies have been at work here for many years, and some at least of the Chinese are beginning to look for more than merely conse- crated service on the part of the doc- tor. They desire also the advantages brought to Western lands by the modern advances in science. Such services cannot be adequately rend- ered, even by the most devoted doctor, if he or she is attempting to do the work of three or four persons, in the most inconvenient and not altogether sanitary quarters, with less equipment than many an American hospital boasted thirty or forty years ago. The Opportunity Wuchang is at the heart of Central China. It is one of ancient China’s ancient cities, and is now the political and educational center for some fifty million people. Hankow and Han- yang are practically a part of Wu- chang, and the three cities grow stead- ily in commercial and industrial, as well as in political and educational im- portance. These conditions, together with the fact that the few who lead and rule congregate in such a capital and actually dominate the communi- ties from which they come, make Wu- chang an ideal situation for an insti- tution which has the comprehensive aim of a modern Christian hospital in China. That aim, which has become in- creasingly clear as our experience has extended, is threefold: (1) to relieve suffering, (2) to afford a model which the Chinese may safely imitate, and (3) to become, in time, a means by which Chinese Christians may make their own contribution to the healing and sanitation of their great land. The story of how our hospital work in Wuchang has reached its present position of great opportunity is a long one, full of the devotion of medical missionaries — doctors and nurses, men and women from America, — their pa- tience and skill in overcoming preju- dice and superstition, and the co-oper- ation of all branches of the Mission in training Chinese doctors and nurses. Romance and heroism abound in that story. Suffice it to say here that im- mense difficulties have been overcome, so that now we have a site of about three acres, in the very best part of Wuchang (the last purchase com- pleted only in April of this year), and a staff of foreign and Chinese workers of whom the Church may well be proud. We need more workers, of course. We shall doubtless need more land also in the future. But the pres- ent staff and the present site call first of all for a hospital, dispensary, nurses’ homes, and dwellings for the staff, to replace the makeshifts with which we have had to be satisfied for the past eight years. Two remarks should be made at this point — first in acknowledgment and explanation to the generous friends who have given towards the $30,000 asked four years ago for our Wuchang Hospital. The $15,000 then asked for the Women’s Department has been al- most all contributed, and considerable amounts have also been given towards a similar sum for the Men’s Depart- ment. Why do we not confine ourselves to the plans we had when these sums were solicited? The answer is that the situation has developed so that our plans of four years ago are now quite inadequate. This inadequacy may have been due to lack of faith on our part. At any rate the incalculable element involved in the situation was not correctly estimated, for on the one hand we have actually purchased a site which four years ago we could hardly have dreamed of securing; and on the other hand both the Board of Missions The Church General Hospital, Wuchang, China 5 in New York and the missionaries in China have reached a point of expect- ancy regarding the will of the Church in America to support our medical work, which has made it impossible not to formulate larger plans than those with which we began. The Board reached this position ahead of the missionaries, and great was the disappointment of the staf¥ in China when last year the Board halted the building of the Women’s Department, for which plans had been drawn and the contract was about to be let. This disappointment was greatly tempered, however, when it became plain that the delay might mean larger plans and altogether more adequate equipment. We now confidently hope that the new and larger plans will commend them- selves to our Church people, and se- cure prompt support. In the second place, a word should be said about the relations of this hos- pital to the plans of the China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. Why should the Church be pushing such a plan as this for a hospital when the China Medical Board is putting so much money into modern medical work in China ? The answer is that the China Medical Board’s work, while definitely intending to co-operate with the regular medical missionary work, does not relieve the missions of burdens they have hitherto carried for hospital work. It intends to help them mainly by taking over the chief burden of medical education and supplying a larger staff of both Chinese and for- eign workers to do, with fewer handi- caps, the work they have all along been trying to do. And the very ex- cellence of the medical standards which will thus be reached by the Chinese will both require and make possible far more efficient hospital work, such as our plans contemplate. WHAT IS— AND WHAT SHOULD BE By Mary Latimer James, M.D. W ILL not the American Church rise to the occasion and plant in this important city of Cen- tral China a modern, well-equipped hospital and nurses’ training school? We ask not merely for the gold neces- sary to put up airy, sanitary, conven- ient buildings, with modern equip- ment. but also for the finest Christian doctors and nurses to labor to build up this institution. Only the best are good enough. Such a statement makes us feel the imperfection in ourselves whom you have already delegated to this work. But will you not send us new recruits to make up what we lack in spirituality and skill? The inces- sant grind of work has left us too little time for spiritual refreshment as well as too scanty opportunities for medical study. That octopus, the Chinese language, eats up the otherwise un- occupied moments of those of us who were thrust into full-time medical work from the day of our arrival. May not workers be sent to us in such num- bers and sufficiently soon to make it TUBERCULOUS CHILD ON STRETCHER **Ten a. in. and all the kiddies are carried out into the court for the rest of the day'* The Church General Hospital, Wuchang, China possible for each to have at least one year to study the Chinese language before launching out upon the absorb- ing work of a hospital? If workers still cannot be sent out until our fur- loughs are overdue or our health broken, they will be forced to repeat the old story. The Women’s Depart- ment of the hospital alone urgently needs one more woman doctor and two more nurses this year, and another doctor, and nurse within the next three or four years. Now will you bear with me while I tell you a few of the mechanical dif- ficulties under which we now work in the present Women’s Hospital? In our operating room beautiful yellow fungus springs from our floor over night, and green mold is like the poor — always with us. Our sterile goods must be frequently sunned and rester- ilized, else mildew will invade even these sacred precincts. Wuchang is proverbially damp, and our low native buildings, with floor beams laid right on the ground, greatly accentuate this natural difficulty. Our rotting floors not infrequently let a nurse or bed through to the earth rather unex- pectedly, at most inopportune mo- ments. Moreover, our quarters ramble in such a way as absolutely to defy heat- ing, even in the bleakest weather. Chil- blains on hands as well as feet are the natural accompaniment of winter, for both Chinese and foreign workers. Frequently I attempt to pull a tooth or perform some other slight surgical feat with hands so numb and swollen that I can hardly grasp my instrument. Winter before last it was so cold that the bichloride solution for hand disin- fection froze over and over again through the day. We are forced to cook in a dark, shed-like structure, wedged into the angle of a building, and I am not in- frequently put to it to cheer up the cook and provide warm food for pa- tients and nurses, when snow swirls around his neck, or heavy rains wash away not merely his fire, but also his primitive brick stove. Our “laundry” is similarly convenient ! The drying- room is conspicuous by its absence. Our Chinese nurses live in low, damp rooms which make it very dif- ficult for us to keep them in good health. Yet the training of nurses is one of the most important features of medical work in China today. .Our own quarters are so damp and breath- less that we have not dared to risk spending another summer in them. Hence, to our deep regret, the Wo- men’s Hospital is closed this summer as it has had to be closed almost every sxmimer in its long history. Last year we kept it open, but at too great ex- pense to the health of ourselves and our Chinese nurses. May the summer of 1917 find us in a sanitary building, and with such a staff that the ques- tion of closing need not even be dis- cussed ! To turn now from our needs to what we really have, let me tell you "Yes, we are nurses! Not fat, hut padded! No furnace!” The Church General Hospital, Wuchang, China 7 The little girl in center, Pao Chu, is the waif adopted by Dr, James about the sunny children that crowd three rooms of our primitive hospital. Many of them are little cripples with tubercular bone disease, who must spend long, long months, or sometimes years, lying flat on their backs, with weights attached to their legs. We have had Bradford frames (a sort of canvass stretcher with iron rims) made for them here in China, and every good day we carry them out into the little courtyard in the center of the hospital. The nurses have learned to give them such care as one might be proud of even in America. I have never seen a happier set of children than our little cripples. They are fond of the nurses, always ready to respond to our advances or to those of visitors, and eager to learn anything and everything. The Biblewoman gives them regular in- struction in reading their own language, and also teaches them Bible stories and the simpler doctrines of the Church. Anyone who will teaches them hymns. In these they fairly exult. Should you visit our children’s wards you would probably find yourself compelled to stand and listen to all the verses of “There’s a Friend for Little Chil- dren,” “Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful,” or some other of their favorite hymns. But not all our children are cripples. Many come in with acute diseases, and these, too, soon respond to the spirit of cheer in th'e wards. Last year a little four-year-old, covered with sores and exhausted by a raging fever, tot- tered into our gate, all alone. She was only a girl, and the family had too many of these already. They cared only just enough for her to direct her to our doors. Touched by her sweet plaintiveness I decided to keep the little tot as my own child. Now she is clean and well, and a regular sun- beam in our wards. Her name is Pao Chii (Precious Jewel). Though she must live at the hospital until old enough to go to St. Hilda’s School, she is by no means in our way. She is taught to think of the little cripples and to pick up their toys for them. Not infrequently I detail her to con- sole and amuse some homesick new- comer. DR. JAMES HOLDING A CLINIC "Toward the end of a long day we don’t always smile like this" 8 The Church General Hospital, Wuchang, China Our adult patients also are not with- out their appealing side. Just a week ago Father Wood baptized a poor old woman with cancer. When she came to us first, about a year ago, her dis- ease was far beyond hope of cure, but we were able to relieve her a little. Since then, whenever her condition has become intolerable, she has re- turned. In these brief sojourns in the hospital she has learned to know Christ. Another patient, a woman on whom I performed a radical opera- tion for advanced tumor of the breast, showed a wonderful change of dispo- sition while in our wards. At first she was one of the most disagreeable persons I have ever had. Gradually, however, she developed into a most attractive little woman. She and her daughter have both promised to at- tend St. Michael’s Church, and I hope they may enter the regular prepara- tion class this autumn. Our surgical cases seem more in- clined to listen to the Gospel than our medical patients, probably because the help we can give is more spectacular. I frequently think of the bright, smil- ing face of a Mrs. Chii from whom I removed an enormous abdominal tumor about eighteen months ago. In the impressionable period before and after the operation Miss Byerly spoke to her often of the love of Christ. Gradually faith was kindled in her, and last winter she was baptized. I might tell, too, of a woman with tuber- culosis who came to us too late for bodily cure, but in time to receive from our Lord the comfort of that faith which can alone save the soul. Hospital work is interesting, and wonderfully inspiring in the possibili- ties it gives to present the Gospel to those in an impressionable condition and with an abundance of leisure to listen. But if the conditions of work are so trying that all our best energies are used up with the routine profes- sional work and the petty details of unfit kitchen, laundry, etc., can wc give our best spiritually to these people? And must we pursue anti- quated medical methods in unsanitary quarters while the march of progress passes us by? Will not the Church answer this question now by supply- ing not only the necessary gold but also consecrated, thoroughly-trained workers ? OUR “CURE-HALL” FOR MEN By Elisa L. Roots T he above is the nearest literal translation which can be made of the Chinese term for hospital. When sick folk come to seek the for- eign dispenser of health — whom they have heard of as the organizer and president of the Chinese Red Cross Society — they find him in what is known as the Men’s Department of the Church General Hospital. Its situation is truly an ideal one for the purpose. It is within easy reach of the residential section of the city, yet not far from its busiest business portion. It is close also to one the military camps and to the gov- ernment offices, while on that side of the city also are the mint and several factories, all of which the hospital has been able to serve, even with its pres- ent inferior plant and equipment. The buildings found on the site when it was bought had been the home of a rich Manchu, and outwardly have hardly been altered since then, because to do anything worth while would have cost a great deal, and we were always hoping for a new hospital. The ent- rance is quite imposing, as you see it from the gate, looking up the long The Church General Hospital, Wuchang, China .9 walk, flower-bordered, with an exer- cise ground for the men nurses on one side and a tennis court for the foreign staff on the other. Its two wings have rooms which house dispensary on one side and a chapel on the other. On any dispensary day prospective patients are seen scattered all the way from the gate to the waiting-room door and crowded inside as well. Be- tween two and three hundred are treated every week, and always by a foreign doctor, and with supervision of a foreign nurse. This care might be thought a sine qua non, but until we secured our increase of staff — the second doctor from America (Dr. Wassell), Dr. Char, a Honolulu Chi- nese, and two American nurses — this was not found possible; and is not found possible in many hospitals in China to this day. The reason is plain. Formerly the hospital “rounds,” all operations, keeping the hospital books, instruction of nurses, private calls and care of a second dispensary on the other side of the hill, besides care of the students of Boone University, of the members of the Wuchang foreign mission staff, attendance on committee meetings, etc., all fell upon the should- ers of one man. And the work has grown. Readers of The Spirit of Mis- sions will remember the remark- able work done by Dr. MacWillie dur- ing the revolution as organizer and president of the Red Cross Associa- tion. This timely public service gained great prestige for our hospital, and its opportunities for service doubled from that moment. They could not all be accepted while only one man held the fort. But at last help came, and many good things followed the coming, first of nurse, then of doctor. The ignor- ant, “sloppy,” half-coolie, half-orderly of the olden times is now a figure of the past. The nurses now are boys of some education to begin with, and un- der the instruction of the foreign staff they are prepared to try for the certifi- DR. MacWILLIE and ADMIRAL SAH cate offered either men or women nurses by the Central China Medical Society. One of the Wuchang clergv acts as hospital chaplain, and under him many of these nurses have been prepared for baptism and confirma- tion, and in the tiny chapel services are held which are a help and comfort to nurses and patients alike. Beyond this pavilion is the main building, — rectangular, two-storied, high-ceilinged, entirely unheated and guiltless of plumbing.* This building is “semi-foreign” in plan and construc- tion. That is to say, it has a broad hall running from front to back in- stead of rooms built around a central court; floors are of wood, windows * Heating and plumbing the entire new hosoital plant will cost about $11,000. Will you not help to keep nurses’ and patients’ feet and hands warm in 1917, even though they must be covered with chilblains this one winter more? ti-OCZ I LhTi I^iLCHUr.CH GLHLZAL HO/PiTAL WUGHANG CHINA /MATTUC/ C- Hu-'/LY AiCHT.' y>- CU'CHCO The property is 400 feet wide and SOO feet deep. The extreme length of the main hospital building is 220 feet and doors are built and set in foreign fashion and the second-story is not a mere loft, but high like the first. Down-stairs, first come the administra- tion rooms — doctor’s offices, labora- tories, etc., and behind them two large wards, arranged much as all wards are arranged. The laboratory has done more work of late than ever before. Over 2,000 microscopical examinations have been made in the past nine months. Here, as elsewhere, appara- 10 tus and furniture are crude and in- convenient, and, says Dr. MacWillie, in his annual report, “the department is much behind what it ought to be.” The plans for the new hospital, one is glad to note, show careful provision for its development.* Up-stairs more wards, private rooms and the operating-room. It is The two new laboratories can be built and equipped at a cost of about $1,400. What person, who believes in modern bacteriological research, will give this sum in whole or in part? The Church General Hospital, Wuchang-, China 11 not difficult to imagine that our for- eign nurses, trained in immaculate wards with every convenience at their command, have many dark moments as they struggle to keep cases “clean” in a place designed and finished by a Chi- nese carpenter and lived in for years by a Chinese family. In these wards 1,221 patients have been cared for this past year. The operating-room, in the rear and with a north light, has wit- nessed 390 operations under general anaesthesia. The difficult operations which constantly present themselves in China must in our present hospital be performed under conditions which are a terror to doctor and nurse. And yet $4,000 would provide an operating- room which would be nearly perfect and entirely satisfactory. This is only a glimpse, and of the Men’s Department alone, and without the detail which might make these spaces live with hoping, fearing, suf- fering, grateful human beings. What is it which for the first time gives enthusiasm to us who look on at the work which is being done here, and puts hope into the hearts of those who have summered and wintered in these crude surroundings ? The splen- did site for the United Hospitals is now ours and all but paid for. Plans which satisfy the two superintendents, the bishop and the board have been drawn up and provide for a hospital complete and up-to-date in every re- spect. It will accommodate only 150 beds, but other wings can be added to the original if desired, and these 150 persons, besides the hundreds of dispensary patients who pass through the hands of our staff, will have as good treatment as can be secured any- where in China. The staff itself will have a good chance then of keeping their health (which they do not do now), and, moreover, men and women of high ideals will not have to shrink from offering themselves to help suf- fering China in her need. The Lord who gave His own best — everything that He was — demands of His Church its best. At present we are inviting Chinese men and women, rich and poor alike, within hospital walls which we would not think fit to house cur motor cars or shelter our high- priced machinery. To do this is to discredit our Christianity in the eyes of those Chinese — now not a few — who have seen what sort of hospitals we demand for ourselves in America, and who are quite able to draw their own conclusions. WHAT CERTAIN SUMS WILL DO BUILDING: First Section (center portion main hospital, fireproof) $29,000.00 Ward Wings (men and women), fireproof (each $8,500) 17,000.00 Heating, plumbing and electric wiring 11,000.00 Out Patient Building (for both men and women, fireproof) ;.. 10,000.00 Home for Foreign Nurses (men’s or women’s departments) 6,000.00 Home for Chinese Nurses (men’s or women’s departments) 5,000.00 House for Doctor, men’s dyiartment (or for two women doctors) ; or. Men’s Medical Ward (20 beds); or. Men’s Surgical Ward (20 beds); or. Children’s Ward (20 beds); each 4,000.00 Women’s Medical or Surgical Wards (10 beds) each 2,000.00 Clhapel 1,500.00 Maternity Ward 960.00 Men’s or Women’s Eye Wards, each 750.00 Laboratory (unfurnished, men’s or women’s department) 200.00 EQUIPMENT : Instruments of all kinds 4,000.00 Laboratory Equipment (including microscopes) 1,000.00 Furniture for Chinese Nurses’ Houses 1,000.00 Furnaces, etc., for Chinese Nurses’ Houses 1,000.00 Chapel Furniture (Altar, $75; Font, $25; Lectern, $15; Stalls and Desk, $35) 210.00 Clothing for Convalescents 200.00 Surgical “Linen”: Sheets, $50; Towels, $50; Gowns, etc., $40 140.00 One Bed (ISO needed) 12.00 One Bedside Table (150 needed) 4.00 One Blanket (450 needed) 1.00 One Sheet (900 needed) .70 The Length of the Building is 220 feet. THREE FLOOR PLANS OF THE HOSPITAL WHAT WILL YOU DO ABOUT IT? T he Church General Hospital surely deserves the careful atten- tion and the sympathetic interest of the Church. That it will also re- ceive the material aid which it needs to make its work efficient — particularly the financial help called for by our en- larged plans — cannot be doubted. These plans as they stand contem- plate an expenditure of $160,000. Part of this sum, however, has al- ready been given, and our plans can hardly seem extravagant whea we re- member four things: (a) the large amounts already contributed by the Chinese themselves; (b) the generous gifts already made in America; (c) the extent of the land and buildings and equipment with which they will provide our hospital work; and (d) that this is for the only medical work belonging to the district of Hankow. The most important contribution from the Chinese came in recognition of the part taken by the Mission — es- pecially by Dr. MacWillie, Dr. Glen- ton and Miss Higgins — in the Red Cross work at the time of the revolu- tion. General Li Yuan-hung, now President of the Chinese Republic, gave $2,000 towards the purchase of the site. Other gifts and hospital fees from the Chinese added $3,000 more for this same purpose; and the doc- tor’s dwelling (our only permanent building, costing about $4,000), was entirely the gift of one Chinese gen- tleman. From America the following ^ums have already been given: Towards the site, $12,000; towards the new Hospital, $18,000; and $5,000 which will entirely provide for the Chinese (men) Nurses’ Home connected with the Men’s Department. The total thus far contributed is thus $44,000, of which $9,000 has come from the Chinese. The chief items in the new plans are as follows: Site, already purchased (three acres) (towards this $17,000 has already been raised) $30,000.00 Hospital (fireproof) both Men’s and Women’s Departments (towards this $18,000 has already been raised) 75,000.00 Dwellings and Nurses’ Homes (seven buildings) (towards this, $9,000 has already been raised) 35,000.00 Equipment (furniture, bedding, instruments, etc.) 20,000.00 Total Architects’ drawings show the hos- pital plans and how all the proposed buildings will stand on the site we have now secured. $5,000 will provide the Men’s or the Women’s Out Patient Build- ing, or $21,000 in addition to the $18,000 al- ready on hand, will provide for the first section of the main building, and the out- patient buildings, for both Men’s and Women’s Depart- ments. These buildings are of the first importance ; indeed, we cannot begin to build until $160,000 00 money is in hand for these. With this sum ($21,000 addi- tional) we could begin to build at once. What if some friend of the Church and of China would give outright the whole $116,000 needed to complete these plans! Valuable time of mis- sionaries and friends in America would be saved in soliciting the fund, a great work could proceed at once, and extend its influence rapidly among the Chinese people, and — perhaps most important of all — it would cheer and hearten the whole of the China Mis- sion, especially those devoted workers on whose health and efficiency past conditions have told so severely. 13 A DAY AT THE WOMAN’S DEPARTMENT OF THE CHURCH GENERAL HOSPITAL By Grace Hutchins I T was a day that began at 1 1 o’clock of the night before. Dr. James and Miss Dexter were just going to bed when they were called by the little Chinese pupil nurse for a case in the hospital. During the night, while they worked, one leg of the bed on which the patient was lying went through a rotten board in the floor. The pupil nurse who was helping them fell through another rotten board. When they left the patient at half past four in the morning there was only time for two hours’ sleep before beginning the round of daily duties. It happened to be the first of the month. That meant accounts to be taken and wages to be paid, in addi- tion to “making rounds” as usual. If they had slept, who would have done the work? Dr. James was the only woman doctor this year in a city of 500,000 people, and there were only four men doctors. That afternoon there was a medical meeting in Hankow. Dr. James had to go, leaving Miss Dexter, who had less than a year’s knowledge of Chinese, to run the “clinic,” Seventy women, many of them with their chil- dren, waited in the courtyard while the Bible women talked to them, and then came in, each in turn, to explain their symptoms. It was hard to under- stand the confused explanations, but in many cases the need was obvious. Clinic lasted till nearly 6 o’clock. That was the hour for the nurses’ training classes. Dr. James came back from the medical meeting in time to teach her class in physiology. After only four years in China, she is able to teach physiology, anatomy and materia medica in Chinese. Miss Dexter taught a class too. By 7 o’clock they were ready to rest. It was pleasant to find American 14 mail waiting for them. One letter told of a young doctor in a big city here at home. He had hung out his shingle on the street where so many doctors hang out their shingles, and at last after long waiting his first patient had come to consult him. One patient ! There had been 100 patients in the little ramshackle Chinese hos- pital that day — thirty in-patients and seventy out-patients. Where is the nurse who will go out at once to help them? There were hopes of two who might come out this autumn. But they have gone to France for several months. It is an “emergency call” in China no less than in Europe. ■ Miss Dexter writes during a much- needed vacation in Kuling: “If there is anything you can do or say, please help us. The work once begun must go on, if it is possible, but on lines which are not a disgrace, if we are to put our lives into it. Every month makes our present quarters more in- sanitary. And it is with heavy hearts that we look forward to taking on the work again. I am sure the Church at home which is giving so liberally to St. Luke’s, Tokyo, would give us the remainder necessary, and allow the medical work a chance to develop into a real force for good in the mission.” A t the General Convention in St. Louis, after a speech by Bishop Roots at one of the Joint Sessions, a number of persons interested in the Church General Hospital met and took steps toward organization, with a view to secur- ing the amount needed for its erection. As a preparation for interviewing others they themselves pledged nearly $4,000. The following committee was then chosen : Honorary Chairman, the Rt. Rev. L. H. Roots, D.D., Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass. Woman’s Committee Chairman, Miss Grace Hutchins, 166 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. Secretary, Miss Helen A. Littell, 147 Park Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. Treasurer, Miss Janet Waring, 92 South Broadway, Yonkers, N. Y. Mrs. John McE. Ames, Caney, Kas. Mrs. Stephen Baker, 8 East Seventy-fifth Street, New York. Mrs. H. L. Burleson, Bishop’s House, Sioux Falls, S. D. Miss S. G. Case, Ferguson, Missouri. Miss A. H. Clark, 3948 Chestnut Street, New Or- leans, La. Miss Janet Childs, 1612 Wesley Avenue, Evanston, 111 . Miss Gertrude Ely, Bryn Mawr, Pa. Miss J. S. Hendrie, Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. Mrs. P. G. Hubert, 2144 Hobart Boulevard, Los An- geles, Cal. Miss Eleanor James, Rye Seminary, Rye, N. Y. Mrs. Logan Herbert Roots, 63 Deerfield Avenue, Hart- ford, Conn. Mrs. James Grist Staton, Williamston, N. C. Miss Tiffany, The Albion, Baltimore, Md. It is hoped that a men’s committee may soon be formed and that some interested and influential layman may be found who will be willing to give his time and energy to the cause and take the chairmanship. Gifts may be sent either to Miss Janet Waring, 92 South Broadway, Yonkers, N. Y., Treasurer of the Woman’s Committee, or to George Gordon King, Treasurer of the Board, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York City, marked “Special for the Wuchang Hospital Fund.” 15 /t T the meeting of the Board of Missions held in St. Louis pre- ceding the General Convention of IQI6^ Bishop Roots presented and explained the plan for erecting the Church General H os pit a f Wuchang. The Board manifested cordial inter- est and unanimously passed the fol- lowing resolution : RESOLVED : That the Board has heard with great satisfaction the statement of the Bishop of Hankow concerning the Church General Hos- pital in Wuchang, and cordially com- mends to the Church his appeal for funds necessary to carry these plans into effect. 3rd Ed. 1-17. lOM. Scb.