Putnam patriot., 1916-09-15

near found the hospital writing and mailing list in great need of working ovel and has spent a good deal of time upon that sort of thing
 Being here gives me the greatest de- gree of freedom from the care of mis sionnries and their children that have ever had. There is no form of work that "takes so much out Of me as that and as there are plenty of other doctors at the ISuliang summer resorts theJe is no difficulty in getting proper medical attention while 1 am having this rest
 Ne go down to the hospital atout half past six in the morning and the patients are seen until those who can buy tickets in un hour nfe all attended to. If they come behind time they pay an extra fee. In that way they are pretty near all ready for me in good time. This morning we saw ever an hundred of them and were thru before ten o clock. They included some very severe eye cases that would drift into n shopeIess condition fl they were not attended to promptly. We are not re. ceiving in patients at present for a month or so, and are using the time to put the hospital into good condition for the fall work, doing the white. washing, srepairing, etc, that always need to be done.
 The hospital is very cool place in the morning particularly and by do- ing the work so early we get along very comfortably with it. One would think that the patients would hardly come so early, but now that they have learned the rule and know how far ahead of time the hospital clock is they are coming even from good dis tances 10 get treatment. Speaking of the clock, the students attend to 1t and il Is so fsr ahead of time that peo- pie joke us about 1t, but if the students can be ready for work according to that time we will try to find no fault. Formerly the patients would not have known the difference, but now the pa tients remark that our clock is ahead and ask if they must come by our time or the time outside the hospital. An evidence of progress that they are learning to notice the time closely.
 Among our cases lately have been three young men who have just grad uated from the Tsun.hua ("Indemnity college' at Pekin and are going to America for their college course next month, They want to be sure that they have no suggestion of eye disease to make any complication and so they come to have their eyes seen or treated. They are fine boys, two of them are former students of our college.
 Speaking of the cases reminds me of two cases of burns in little girls thai we have had lately. We had been running short of old linen before your box came, aud find our supply verging upon shortness ali the time now. Many of the friends who used to send it are now short because of the many ap- pealS for Il to send to Europe, and so, much less is coming 10 us. There are 50 many burn eases aud il is so uSegal in tAem that we shail be glad to have the need keptiu mind When we say old linen We mean old cotton as well for it answers as well in most cases.
 mr. Beard will have been with you so long as to tell you how il happened that we have been alone in the hoSpi- tai work, because pr. Cooper has been studying the language and teaching in the Union Medical School. When the cases were all new to me, and after be- ing out of the work two years it was not easy to handle 1t rapidly, but as seen as we became accustomed to 1t,