Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . Rev. W. R. Winston, and a Group of Leper Children. Women Patients. Rev. A. Woodward, Superintendent, on the left. Dispensary, Operating Room, Hospital Wards, and Church. The Home for Lepers, Mandalay, Burma.(W. M. S.) THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 443 and children. The constant attention to their wounds, involving as itdoes about 18,000 separate dressings annually, requires a routine of dailylabor, in the accomplishment of which competent lepers have beentaught to assist, as will be seen in some of the accompan
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . Rev. W. R. Winston, and a Group of Leper Children. Women Patients. Rev. A. Woodward, Superintendent, on the left. Dispensary, Operating Room, Hospital Wards, and Church. The Home for Lepers, Mandalay, Burma.(W. M. S.) THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 443 and children. The constant attention to their wounds, involving as itdoes about 18,000 separate dressings annually, requires a routine of dailylabor, in the accomplishment of which competent lepers have beentaught to assist, as will be seen in some of the accompanying illustra-tions. There are other asylums and hospitals, notably one at HiauKan, not far from Hankow, under the London Missionary Society,which was opened in 1895, and was the first of its kind in CentralChina. It has 24 inmates, all of whom are Christians. A large in-stitution is conducted at Hangchow by the Church Missionary Society,consisting of a leper asylum for men, a hospital for women, and ahome for untainted children, with also a convalescent home. TheMission for Le
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