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At the Foot of the Himalayas

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 9, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 41.

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At the Foot of the Himalayas

By V. L. MANN, M. D.

NAJIBABAD is a town of 20,000 inhabitants. It is not a meanly built little town, for northern India, and the streets are kept quite clean. It lies about fifteen or twenty miles from the base of the Himalaya Mountains. The tahsil, or township, has 422 villages, and a total population of 155,000, this being an average of 300 persons to the square mile. Our dispensary workers are the only Europeans there. Medical missionary work opens the way to the hearts of these people. If you could see the quarters in which our workers treat from sixty to two hundred patients a day, I am sure it would open up a liberal spot in your heart. Small, dark, pinched quarters, with mud floors, situated in the center of a crowded bazaar, — all this goes to make it a very uninviting place.
We are sadly in need of money to erect a hospital to which we can bring poor, suffering people who need special care. Such a hospital could be built and equipped for a few thousand dollars.
V. L. MANN, M. D.