Report of the missionary hospital, in the western suburbs of Canton.

  • Benjamin Hobson
Date:
[1855]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the missionary hospital, in the western suburbs of Canton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    or THE MISSIONARY HOSPITAL, i s r H E WESTERN SUBURBS OF CANTON. *rs of societies and public institutions are not very popular present day, especially if they are long and tedious. But those r.ge of such institutions, personally disinclined as they may write them, yet consider they are morally bound to render a account of the receipts and disbursements of contributions ■ey; and at the same time to furnish, for the satisfaction of i.tributors, some < information- to show the good the charity ting. It is for this reason, that I have been induced from i year, to publish a short report of the hospital under my , / ionary hospitals for the benefit of the Chinese have always th a liberal support from the foreign community in this coun- > argument is needed to recommend them to public sympathy, re regarded by all who take an interest in the exercise of Hence, as not only valuable institutions in alleviating much suffering, but also as most useful auxiliaries to the diffusion stianity in China. And this they do in two ways ; 1st, in pio- the way, and opening up inaccessible places for the missio- 2d. In affording ample fields, not only for the exhibition of an “ charity to our neighbor, but for inculcating, in the freest
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