The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-09
METHOD|STS IN AID
OF HOSPITAL CENTERS
Would Alleviate SUFFERING and Cure
Disease Through Extension OF
system.
OSTRICH ORNA

TO alleviate human suffering aad
cure disease through the extension OF
it's great system of hospital centers
now twenty-six in umber, in countries
where groups of millions OF people
are without adequate medical atteh-
ton. the board of foreign missions of
the Methodist Episcopal church VIII
spend S2.2S8,624 in building forty
five more hospitals and twenty-four
dispensaries in foreign countries, as Il
result of the Methodist Centenary
movement to raise S105. 100000 for
world reconstruction, in connection
with that of the Methodist church,
South. with s35, 000,0 900 as it's objec-
tive
This il an entirely separate venture
from that of the forty-eight hospitals
maintained by the Methodist Episco-
pal church in America through when
pass annually over 10000 pauents-
The property value Of these institu-
tions. coupled with their endowments,
is sl5,G26,343. In capacity they range
from the Wesley Memorial hospital in
Chicago. caring yearly for about fooV
leases down 10 the Sunnyside Metho-
dist sanitarium for tuberculosis at Sill
YER cay, n. M. accommodating
Iseventy-fiye patients yearly i,
The church has also just established
a
health of its missionary workers.
BESIDES forty-five hospitals and
twenty-four dispensaries, the board
will erect other buildings and doctors
residences. the whole costing S1,513,-
1880. Ii will draw into service NIFTY
nine more missionary physicians ana
surgeons, thirty-two missionary nurses,
land 1876 native doctors, nurses and
other medical assistants, the budget
inf heing A.
1854. The total for both buildings ana
staff is s2,2ss,624.
| In Mexico, where President Car
rama has just given the Centenary
plans his hearty approval, the boaru
lhas at Guanaiuato the only hospltai
! in a population of l, 100, 900. The near
est hospital is 200 miles away and the
next nearest 400 miles distant. rms
work is to be strengthened
| The board will establish hospitals
nurses training schools, and organiza a.
itions of visiting nurses in the capital
cities of five republics, of South Amer
tica The state hospitals there are NOT
Iadeouate TO care for 10 per cent of the
people.
A missionary doctor in Portuguese
East Africa, is the only medlcai man
for ain area containing three and nan
million people Sometimes o'clock
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eagerly awaiting attention outside the
little hospital. Another doctor ana
hospital in Rhodesia are equally popu-
liar among the blacks, II Is proposed
| To increase the hospitals from two ia
six each with missionary physicians
land an adequate staff.
In China the board has eleven nos
pitfalls and two dispensaries, all over
worked. When bandits scourge DIS
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hospitals. because OF their. reputation
for healing the siclSe Care of wound
ed during the Shinese civil war raised
the estimation of the foreign DOCTORS
in the eyes of the people still higher,
1t in proposed to i'm prove the stau anu
Facilities of existing institutions, g,
ItabIish two additional hospitals ana
eleven dispensaries and IN associa,
ton with other missions, man anc
equip medical schools for the tram
ling of Christian Chinese.
| THE Methodists will build a hospita
for Mohammedans in Singapore anc
lerect nine hospitals on the various
islands OF Malaysia. the governments
bearing part of the cost. they aireaos
have a hospital in Java and doctor II
West Borneo.
In the Philippines medical stauor
Twin he established at Apparri, lu2oh
which will minister to 100000 people
lwho are within four days Journey by
boat from Manila: while another sta
ton at Dagupan, the largest com
mercial center outside of Mania WI
have a field of a million people.
There are many other phases
Methodist medical. work. such as
There are many otner phases
Mcthodist medical work, such as
Ileper home and tuberculosis SAM
Itarium in Africa. and three hospital
and a dispensary in India, which VII
. be improved and developed.