November 1, 1940

Ningpo, Chekiang

I heard today that there has been an outbreak of
some kind of an epidemic in the city. The doctors are
not sure yet, but they think it is bubonic plague.
Twenty people died yesterday. It looks rather serious.

The outbreak has been all in one section of the
city and the authorities have tried to isolate that
area. A cordon of police are kept around that part
day and night. No person except a doctor is allowed to
go in or out.

I have warned our servants not to ride in rikshas
and not to go to crowded places where they might get
bitten by infected fleas. We also put out new batches
of rat poison for any stray rats that might come here.

Edward must stay inside the yard until all danger
is past. Ellen and the baby will be safe in the
hospital.

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U.S., 319, 320, 336, 402
unrest, 203
Yuan Shih-k'ai's, 42

Around the Province, 216

arrests,

by Communists, 180, 199, 325

by Japanese, 180, 201, 212, 327, 349

of Maryknollers, 181

by Nationalists, 212

of students, 303

art, 135, 326, 403, 478, 480, 482

Chinese, 51, 79, 264, 333, 371, 378, 381

Christian, 51, 79, 264, 371

painters and Catholic missionaries, 259

sacred, 69

sculpture, 71

statues, 313

Ashiho, United Free Church of Scotland Mission hospital, 286

Asia, 42

churches in, 319

encounters with Europe, 71

Episcopal visit to mission fields, 315

Jesuits in, 71

missions and missionaries in, 51, 62, 82, 93, 95

Presbyterian Church in Ireland, 81

Asia, Central, paleontological expedition, 71

Asia Christian Colleges Association, 409

Asia, Eastern, Methodist Episcopal Church, 316

Asia, Southeast, theological education in, 441

aspirants, Chinese, 399

Assam, maps, 113

Assemblies of God, 219

Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China, 23, 35, 49,
52, 60, 64, 120, 164, 178, 227, 232, 247, 278, 320, 368, 370,
388, 389, 420, 442, 456

audio recordings, 53

Board of Directors, 169

Board of Founders, 169

Boston Committee, 178

November 3, 1940

Ningpo, Chekiang

There were sixteen deaths yesterday. The plague has definitely been established as bubonic. The Chinese newspapers carry full descriptions of the causes, symptoms and cure of the disease.

The city authorities have acted in complete co-operation with the mission hospital in establishing a preventative campaign.

Day pupils have been taken in as boarders or else have been prohibited from attending our school. The gates are locked and only school servants or employees have been allowed to enter and go out.

Some schools have completely closed down. The general feeling is that the plague is more dangerous than the Japanese.

Just prior to the outbreak, the Japanese armies were advancing toward Ningpo from the rear. People were not nearly as afraid then as they are now of the plague.

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by-laws, 178

church property in China, 157

Committee for Consideration of Greater Unity, 157

committee on Christian character, staff, curriculum, 157

conditions of Christian colleges, 157

conferences and dinners, 53

constitution, 178

and Davison Fund, 290

Disciples of Christ, 368

fund-raising, 210

maps, 238

middle schools, 271

United Service to China, 236

See also United Board for Christian Colleges in China

Associated Boards of Christian Colleges in Asia, University of Nanking, 477

Associated Mission Treasurers in China, 354, 395

Association for American Universities, 145

Association for the Chinese Blind, 49, 88, 225, 258, 271, 389

Association for the Welfare of Children in China, 286

Association of the Holy Childhood, 343

Association Press of China (YMCA), 54, 434

Association Secretarial School of China, 271

astronomy, 61, 73, 486

atheism, 82

Athens Messenger (Athens, Ohio), 163

Atlantic Monthly, 238

atlases, 139, 224, 234, 247, 348

Catholic missions, 279

China Inland Mission, 359

Chinese empire, 22, 31, 79, 94, 97, 183, 185, 235, 239, 243, 247, 253, 312, 358, 386

A Description of the Empire of China, 348

Franciscan missions, 247, 254

I-Tchang Fou, 247

Jesuits in Chinese Tartary and Tibet, 247

missions, 242, 279, 131, 152, 165

P'ing Chang Hien, 247

Protestant mission stations, 131, 152, 165

November 15, 1940

Ningpo, Chekiang

Edward and I both got anti-bubonic plague infec-
tions today from a supply of serum that has just come up
from Wenchow. We will need another next week to provide
complete immunity.

The control of the disease here has been quite
effective. Deaths have been cut down to one or two a day.

Gangs of men have been cleaning up refuse heaps
along the streets. Even private owners have been clean-
ing the refuse from gutters in front of their shops.
Posters regarding the prevention and control of the dis-
ease have been stuck around the city. People are rat
and flea conscious.

Thousands of rat traps have been made and sold.
The plague has caused the biggest boom that the city's
trap business has ever had.

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provinces, 323

Upper Yangtze, 247

Atsi Kachin, 109

attacks,

on American Baptist Mission, 363

on Chinese evangelist, 339

by Communists, 303, 293

by French (1884), 159

by Japan, 262, 303, 304, 330

on Yale buildings, 65

audio recordings, 190, 256, 310, 324

Advent Christian Church, 90

American Board for Christian Colleges in China meeting, 53

American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, 255

Amoy songs, 190

Bana', 110

Baptist Perspective on China, 390

California College in China, 235

California Province News, 20

Cantonese, 110

China Mission Institute, 3

China Records Project, 43

"Chinese College Women in War Time," 53

Chinese Religious Experience, 21

Christian church, 87

Christian communities, 315

Christmas carols, 75, 190

Church of the Brethren, 100

Communist takeover, 390

Congregation of the Passion of the Eastern United States, 180

Dominican mission endeavor, 314

"Exchange at Goa," 20

Foochow dialect, 110

Gospel, 21, 110

Hainanese, 110

Hakka, 110

Hing Hwa dialect, 110

Hokchia dialect, 110

hymns, 190

International Christian Conference in Montreal, 279

internment by Communists, 100

Jesuits, 20

Journey Through Life (television program), 355

Lanten, 110

Lisu, 110

Mandarin, 110

Matthew, 129

memorial service, 390

Meo, 110

December 1, 1940

Ningpo, Chekiang

The plague sector was burned out tonight. At seven o'clock the whole southwestern horizon was livid with flame. It seemed as though the very heart of the city was being burned out.

The Y.M.C.A. secretary asked me to go and take pictures for him. Although I knew that I could not get good pictures, I went along to see how the affair was handled.

There was nothing but a heap of glowing embers by the time I got there. I climbed into the third storey of the shops opposite the burning sector, and walked all the way around the area.

A fourteen foot brick wall had been built entirely around the infected area, yet it had many wide gates. In one place a large section of wall had fallen over during the fire. I came away feeling that the burning could not be called a sure cure for the infected area. I hoped that the government will have compulsory inoculations of anti-bubonic plague for all of the people in this area. That is the only sure thing and that is the only procedure which can possibly make all of these other precautionary attempts useful.

Ninety people had the plague and eighty-nine of them died. When people were discovered with the disease they were immediately taken to a large building set

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notes on 1972 trip to China, 16
Nung, 110
Oriental Missionary Society, 141
Peking Union Medical College, 96
prison life under Communists, 355
Ricci Mutiny, 20
scripture verses, 110
Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society, 398
Shanghai dialect, 110
Southern Baptist Convention, 366, 368, 390
Taiwanese, 110
Tibetan, 110
**Tonight Show, The** (television program), 355
underground evangelism, 324
Women for America Rally, 20
Yale-in-China fund-raising, 65
Yunnanese, 110

Augsburg Confession, 82, 200

Augsburg Publishing House, 456

Augusta Female Seminary, 393

Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, 49

Augustana Hospital, 286

Augustana Lutheran Synod, 348
and Communist takeover, 93
Hankow, 454
Honan, 93, 198, 271
Kiahsien, 202
Loyang, 202
missionaries, 93 198 202
missions, 77, 92, 93, 103, 104, 132, 198, 271, 337, 454, 456
Shekow, 454
Swedish Lutheran Church, 135

Augustinian missionaries, 118

Aurora College for Women, 217, 403

Aurora University, 217, 258

Australia, 122, 432
deputation of churchmen to China, 54, 83, 96, 157, 232, 379
National Council of Churches in the U.S.A., deputation, 275
authority, civil, and missionary power, 166

apart as a plague hospital. People who had close con-
tacts with infected persons were isolated in still another
place. People who lived in the area were not allowed to
leave and outsiders were not allowed in.

Before the area was burned, people were allowed to
bring out certain possessions which could be sterilized
in large vats constructed especially for that purpose.
They say that five thousand dollars worth of property
was lost in the fire.

Those who lost property are being compensated by
the local government, but not nearly enough to make it
all up.

The foreign community donated one thousand, three
hundred and fifty dollars for the relief of the poor in
that area.

There is to be a three day exhibition and demon-
stration of plague prevention, beginning tomorrow at the
Y.M.C.A. Tomorrow may be the psychological moment for
mass education but I feel it is premature. It is too
soon to take it on granted that the plague has been
defeated.

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FINAL 2 Edited AC

A.A.U. <u>See</u> Association for American Universities

A.B.C.C.C. <u>See</u> Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China

A.B.C.F.M. <u>See</u> American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

A.B.F.M.S. <u>See</u> American Baptist Convention, Foreign Mission Society

aborigines, Formosa, 9

Abounding Grace Hospitals, 340

academic life, 335

academics, Chinese, 326

Academy College (Tung-sho), 54

Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia), 345

accommodation,
in Chinese missions, 57, 166, 187
by Maryknoll in Manchuria, 18, 20, 252,
Matteo Ricci's method, 7, 19, 57, 68, 90, 94, 97, 102, 103,
119, 183, 235, 281, 334, 379, 396, 400

Acta Ordinis Fratrum Minorum, 293

acupuncture, 203

adaptation by Maryknoll in Manchuria, 18, 20, 252

adjustment by Westerners to China, 238

administration,
educational, 31, 144
missionary, 278, 281, 101, 102, 103, 124
of regional seminaries, 68-69, 217

adoption, 225, 241

Adullam News, 219

Advancement of the Methodist Centenary Movement, 313

Advent Christian Church, 89, 90, 102, 168, 270, 299, 414

December 3, 1940

Ningpo, Chekiang

One of the mission hospital coolies died this morning of pneumonic plague. This is the kind that spreads like fire and wipes out whole populations. This is the only case of pneumonic plague known so far, but we are all anxiously waiting for more news of such cases.

Ellen and I and the children and the servants have had our anti-plague injection but still we live in apprehension.

The Chinese newspaper had the story that the disease has been spread by Japanese planes. While I realize that such savagery might still be practiced, I still hope that it is not true. Regardless of the source we must fight the infection with all our skill.