A Cheap Hospital | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 26, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 21.

A Cheap Hospital.

We have to go to the Old World to know what cheap and economical living means. The Independent has this item: “The medical missionary, I. Hunter Wells, M.D., writes from Pyengyang, in Korea, that a small hospital over which he presides, and accommodating between thirty and fifty in-patients, cost only $1,200. The floors in the wards are of stone, covered with clay and paper, and heated underneath. The patient’s board costs twelve cents per diem. The first assistant gets $3.50 a month, the second one $3.00, and the errand boy $1.80. The entire expense for everything but the missionary’s salary, which comes from America, was $1,000 for eighteen months. Hospital care averaged ten cents a patient.”