The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-02-14
DIR. Stephenson Declares Native
Men Think Less of Wives
Than of Their Cows.
NO MEDICAL TREATMENT
Do Not Know How to Raise Chill
dren--American Women Ply
sieians Needed There.
DIR. Stephenson Declares Native
! No MEDICAL TREATMENT

Especial 10 The Richmond virginian.J
BROOKLYN. ". y. Feb. I4.-when
Buddhist prays he implores his god
thar when he dies he shall not be-
cursed by being born again as a
woman. That is the attitude OF the
native men of India toward women.
and against which missionaries in the
Orient are directing all their energy.
Ir. Eleanor Stephenson, a Brook
lyn woman, who has been practising
medicine In India for three years, an,l
who will return to her work there
mex, week, makes an appeal to Amer3-
can women to 60 out there.
Il wan. the women here to realize
what 1t means to be born IN America"
she said to-day. To he born whore
a woman is the backbone of the man,
his strength and help in every way
Why, out in Ahmednagar. where my
work is a woman Ia no more than
an animal. A man thinks more of
his cow--if he is lucky enough to
have one--than he does of his wife.
"A TTIndoo husband VIII let MS
wife die before he viii call in a ma n
to give her medical or surgical treat
ment. That shows the need for wo-
men physicians in the Orient"
In Ahmednagar, which is an in
lnnd plateau about hundred miles
from Bombay, there are two physi-
clans. Or. Ruth Hume and Dr.
Stephon son. and one American trained
nurse. Miss Johnson Under Miss
women who have had some slight
training and these help with the
rursing. In the mission hospital,
which this handful of women run.
l ZOO people were treated last year,
an average of forty-one a day. These
folk have come from radius of about
fffy miles, though some special cases
have come aA far as 400 miles.
rhe Rev. Alden II. Clark. who Is an
educational missionary at the same
place as DR. Stephenson, gives some
interesting figures about the number
~ nurses and doctors in the Orient.
There are probably" he says. mot
more than 100 nurses In the entire
missionary world, and there are Soo,-
900, 900 people in non-Christian lands
who have no medical aid except mis-
siDnsry physicians. All Christendom
has sent out only $50 medical MIA
sionaries. male or female. and TINS
body maintains 34S hospitals, ninety
sever leper asyluHis and twenty-one
classes for native women.
One physician who had no nurse
to help him, treated $4,000 cases in
year. SO you can see that the
supply of trained medical assistance
is wcefuliy inadequate.
IL. Calcutta which has the best
facilities In the Orient, three-fifths of
the population die without any doctor
or ether trained medical assistance In
their Anal illness In China there Ia
probably one American or European
trained doctor to every million ana
half of people. In the United
States there are 100000 physicians
and $4,000 nurses. an average OF one
physician to every $50 people"
"Of course. we do a great deal OF
actual nursing. and that Is most I'M
portnnt," DR.. Stephenson says, but
another thing which Ia even bigger.
is this We show women who have
thought themselves wholly unlored
that some one cares for them. They
know that there Is very small
money consideration given us and that