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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 10, 1910

Medical Missionary Notes

W. H. WARNER, M. D., of the Walla Walla (Wash.) Sanitarium, writes: “I have your letter in regard to our nurses taking up work with ‘Ministry of Healing.’ We shall be glad to do our part in this as fast as we can, but for the last three months we have been crowded with patients, and have not been able to care

for them properly, owing to lack of help. We usually have from ten to fifteen patients; lately we have had from twenty-five to thirty-five. As soon as there is less to do, we are going to push this campaign as hard as we can. Our surgical work continues to develop; in one month we have done over one thousand dollars’ worth. We are greatly encouraged.”

Dr. C. A. Hansen, who has recently been appointed medical secretary of the Central Union Conference, sends us the following interesting information: “We have taken up the work in Boulder, Colo., at the sanitarium and in the church, and have ordered two thousand dollars’ worth of the books, ‘Ministry of Healing.’ The outside world seems as interested as our own people. The Boulder Commercial Association is planning to help us.”

Dr. Riley Russell, of Soonan, Korea, writes as follows: “Well, old Father Time has turned the hands two times round since I left the District of Columbia, but we have been so busy, and we enjoy our work so much, that we have not been lonesome for a single day. During the year 1909 we had 5,172 patients, and 578 of them were outside calls. Our total expense was $450 gold, and we received about $150 fees; we have about $200 worth of supplies on hand, so our total net loss was only about $100 gold. Our dispensary cost forty yen (twenty dollars), but we can sell it for that amount when we get ready to move.”

In a recent letter from Dr. G. B. Replogle, of the sanitarium in South America, he says: “The sanitarium keeps about full all the time—twenty-five to thirty patients. Almost everything comes along that one could think of. Yesterday we had an amputation of forearm, result of accident in a machine. The same day a family came with diphtheria. To-day two cases of typhoid fever came to the sanitarium. Our nurses’ class is doing well. We expect others to join in a short time. We are having lectures for the patients twice a week, and once a week, Sabbath evenings, religious services especially for the sanitarium family. Two patients have accepted the truth—one has been baptized, and the other is waiting for the rite.”

Harmon Lindsay, business manager of the Paradise Valley (Cal.) Sanitarium, writes: “I am glad to report that we are crowded to the utmost capacity. We have forty-five patients and several boarders at the present time, more than I thought it was possible for us to care for. Oftentimes our dining-room is so crowded that members of our faculty have to eat elsewhere. Financially, naturally, we are doing well while our patronage is so good.” Further word regarding sanitariums in California states that the patronage in all the institutions in that State surpasses anything they have ever known before. St. Helena has from one hundred twenty-five to one hundred fifty patients, Glendale thirty-five to forty, and Loma Linda from eighty-five to ninety.