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Identifier: spiritofmissions74epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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we feel glad at present that it wasmade. The profits we thus derived en-abled us to accommodate more free bedsthan were provided for by endowmentand gifts. Indeed, we feel that in thepresent state of our finances little couldhave been accomplished without the aidthus derived, without plunging the in-stitution into debt. In general termsour income from pay patients coversmore than two-thirds of our mainte-nance expenses. Furthermore, a certainelement of the community, more especi-ally members of our church and of ourmission, needed our services. This pro-vision gave them stronger interest inour work, and through their efforts thehospital obtained better attention fromthe community at large. The general wards were planned toaccommodate fifteen patients, but therewere many occasions on which we hadto have nineteen, twenty and twenty-onepatients. The dispensary can feed ahospital of two hundred free beds ormore, and it has been on many occasionsa matter of considerable difficulty to (859)
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University Hospital at Manila 861 leep down the number of free patients;vithin our financial means. Since its)rganization (nine months) the hospi-;al has admitted 277 patients; 81)ay, 196 free. The average number oflays the patient stays in the hospital isL9. The number of major operationslone in the hospital since its in-luguration is 147. It has been our aim;o do the greatest possible amount ofjood that could be done with the meansit our disposal. Training-school for Nurses 3NE of the greatest difficulties en-countered in the conduct of ouri*hilippine mission is found in the try-ng nature of the climate, which seems)articularly a difficult one for women:oming from the United States. It wasneyitable, therefore, that the new hospi-al should be confronted at the outset7ith the problem of securing an ade-(uate and efficient corps of nurses. In-deed, the opening of the work, after theompletion of the Pennsylvania Build-Qg, was delayed because of this lack;nd never since the establishment

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