In the New Province of Hunan, China
By Emma Perrine-Laird
EMMA PERRINE-LAIRD, M. D. We have now taken a small house, and are at work. I have begun the language study with a teacher, and am assisting a lady physician of the Moravians. Later I expect to open a little work in our own house, outside the city walls, where there is much need. My husband conducts a meeting in our front room, next the street, which he has fitted up for that purpose. All he has to do is to open the door and sing a song, and he has a crowd of attentive listeners every evening. The following is a paper which I prepared; it is to be read at the meeting of the Medical Alliance in America, and may be of interest to the readers of the REVIEW:— Hunan is one of the most central of the eighteen provinces of China. Changsha, the capital city, is enclosed by a wall nine miles in circumference, and has a population estimated at four hundred thousand. The people are said to be very proud; and to have rather more than the average amount of intelligence accorded Chinese.