Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-04-12
BRATTLEB0R0 LOCAL
DR.. HARRIET PARKER IN HOSPITAL

Medical Missionary Who Went from
TINS Country to india Has tuberculosis
In California.
Dr. Harriet e. Parker, formerly OF
East Putney, who went to Madura,
South india, IN 1895 as a medical mis-
sionary for the Woman's Board of Mis-
sons, is now in a hospital in Califor-
mia i'll with tuberculosis She has been
in i'll health some time, and it was an
nounced recently that she would come
home soon on furlough. She went from
India to China and after short stay
sailed from China Dec. % and reached
San Francisco Feb. 2. A copy of a
letter which she wrote to Miss Mary
Torrey of Burlington, foreign secretary
of Vermont branch of the Woman
Board has been received In Brattleboro.
1t is dated Between Honolulu and San
Francisco, Jan 81, 1872" and reads as
follows:
Thank YOU for your letter of october
IA, and the message from the juniors IL
was kind of you to write so fully Per-
haps you hardly expected that | would
be homeward bound. Miss Lamson ana
Miss Day made visit to Madura,
spending part of the time in our bunga-
low. They thought l would better come
home at once as my furlough was over
out for year or so to take my place;
/ was very keen on staying till the end
of the year to finish up the accounts
and reports but had to compromise on
Dec. 49, The accounts for the year were
closed, but 1t was too early to do the
government reports, which are lot OF
work. 1 came around this way under
orders to stay six or eight weeks in
California to avoid the change from In
dia to extreme cold. A married niece is
living in Redlands, Cal. 1t was hard to
leave Madura. Mile. Cronier was just
recovering from influenza and was IN
bed when 1 said good bye Our young
girls were practicing carols. 1t was a
disappointment not to have Christmas
with them. More than all 1 missed the
little children, especially Lillne, whose
fourth birthday was on January 10.
"Dr. Scott is a great worker and will
more than fill my place that way, though
of course she does not know the IAN
guage. 1 shall want to be in New Eng
land for the sprngtime, and will try to
see you If l pass on any occasion by
Huntington. We are hoping to land day
alter tomorrow, and having been much
tossed about shall be glad of change.
To Dr. Parkers letter Miss Torrey
adds: "Since the above letter was writ
ten we have learned that DR.. Parker was
being treated in a hospital for tuber-
culosis, also that her dear friend and
helper, Mile. Cronier, died only a
few weeks after she left India, so that
she is in great grief. She will not be
allowed to come north before summer.
Let us remember her in our prayers"
In the last annual report of the Wom-
ans Board of Missions is a report of
the womens hospital at Madura, over
which DR.. Parker has had full charge.
1t says, in part DIR Harriet E. Par
ker has continued her wonderful service,
and it is still amazing that one person
can do and bear so much. Figures can
give little idea of what she has done
We can only say that the number of in
patients has been 519 Of out-patients
14,771. The prescriptions written have
numbered 40,390. OF the patients, over
5000 were Hindus and over 1000 Moslems
DR.. Parker and her invaluable associate
Mile Cronier, have assumed the care OF
a little nursery called the Birds Nest,
In which seven babies have been .nour-
ished during the year."
- SDr. Parker's many friends in Brattle-
bore and elsewhere hope for her speedy
recovery and they will await news from
her with some anxiety