The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-06
FIRST CHINESE WOMAN DOCTOR
After Nine Years. study Here She rs
Going Home 10 Practice.


The first Chinese woman doctor, grad
nate of an American medical college,
to practice In China, and the second
woman of her race to take an occidental
medical degree, is now OF her way
| across the Pacific to her native land
to inaugurate there a new era in wo-
mans work among women. She is DR..
HUI King Eng. a charming, modest lit
tie woman, Enthusiastically Celestial
in every way, despite her ! years
residence in the United States. She
has never discarded her quaint, rich ma
tive dress. and loves her own land best.
She received her Doctors degree in Phil
a%delphia a year ago. has spent the past
twelve months in taking a postgraduate
course and in obtaining actual exper-
fence in her profession. and q week ago
she sailed from San Francisco to Foo
Choo. where she will take up her life
wock as physician and missionary at
the Woman's Hesital. an institution
supported by the Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society.
While she is pure-blooded Chinese,
and proud of the fact, DR.. Hu King Eng
was never a heather. her family having
been Christians for two generations.
Her grandfather was one of the first
natives converted in Foo Choo, and her
father one of the first Christian min
listers ordained in China. She has a
brother in the Methodist ministry and
a sister a teacher in a Methodist school
in China.
She came to America nine years ago,
when quite a young girl, with the de-
termination of becoming a physicion, be-
cause she believed that she could do
far more effective work in Christian
izing her people-which is her main pur-
pose-as a physician and missionary
among the women of her race then as
a mere teacher and preacher She did
not know more han a few words of
English, and the first steps on the way
towards her ambition lay in the acqui-
sition of a thorough knowledge Of that
language. so she went to a preparatory
school at Delaware, O.. There she spent
four years. and then came to PhiIadel-
phia, and after passing a highly cred
liable examination was admitted to the
Wbman's Medical college. She grad
uated from the college fourteen months
course. and the dispensing course at
the Philadelphia Polytechnic. She made
a special study of diseases of the eye
and ear, and was for some months an
assistant in that department of the
Polytechnic. Finishing her course a few
weeks ago. she started for home in
company with a missionary and his
wife who were bound for Foo Choo.
Besides her work with the Woman's
Hospital. she Will try to build a regular
Irywomen. She believes there is a great
field for her among the higher class of
Chinese women. There are some China
women she says. who would rather die
than be attended by a man physician.
while. the doors of both the rich and
poor are wide open to women doctors.
Three years g she went home on a
ton from the women of her native place.
Sick women came to her in great mum
bers because they had heard she could
cure them of all their ills by arts she
had learned in America, and she ex-
poets to WELD great influence among
them as a missionary now. through her
ability to aid them as a physician. The
Woman's Hospital at Foo Choo is for
women only; its staff of physicians are
all women. and the nurses are all native
girls who hope some day to become doc
tors, like the white women missionaries.
Or. Eng is the first to obtain that dis
tinction.
The Chinese women. she says, are wax
ing up and are getting to be progressive
in their ideas. They want to become
educated and to take part in the
the western nations.O One other Chinese
women. has. graduated from an occidental
medical college, DR.. King. who grad
uated from an Eastern college several
years ago, and is now living in Hawaii.
DR.. HUI King Eng will be the only Chin
csc physician with a Western world de-
gree in China--Philadelphia New