(d) Other activities are the Door of Hope Orphanage, for the care of famine waifs, an institution supported apart from a direct grant of the M.S.C.C. In addition Bishop White states "there is a girls' Day School, which this year had 100 pupils on the roll, and a Boys' School with 120 pupils. One feature of the latter is a Boy Scout Troop and training classes for scoutmasters, to which picked scouts from other troops are admitted for special training, under an expert from Boone College. The Honan Branch of the Boy Scouts Association of China, of which H. E. the Governor of Honan is Honorary President, the Commissioner of Education is President, and the Bishop of the Diocese is Commissioner, has its headquarters in the Church Compound. Most of the members of the last colony of Chinese Jews have placed themselves under our guidance, and a clubroom for the Jews' clan is set apart for them in connection with the Church. The Honan Branch of the International Anti-Opium Association has just been organized and its headquarters are also in a suite of rooms belonging to the Church. The Governor is Honorary President, Bishop White is President, and leading officials, business men, members of parliament and others are closely connected with the movement. Besides these, there is of course the main work of the Church, the evangelistic and pastoral activities, with a Sunday School of 400 pupils on the roll, and large night classes of different kinds."

At Kweiteh, the second main station, the material equipment of the diocese has been greatly strengthened through the gift of St. Paul's Hospital, Kweiteh, by the congregation of St. Paul's Church, Bloor St. E., Toronto. This congregation has more than doubled its original. generous gift for the erection of the out-patient and in-patient departments, and, more recently still, has undertaken to bear the entire cost of the nursing, medical and surgical equipment required. By an agreement with the Lutheran Board of Missions, this hospital has been accepted as the centre, for in-patient work, for the district.

(b) The Dispensary of the Messiah, provided by the congregation of the Church of the Messiah, Toronto, is located within the City of Kweiteh. A splendid work has been carried forward in it, and with the opening of St. Paul's Hospital, the medical work of the mission in

the district will be thoroughly established.

(c) Schools and Churches. The Rev. A. J. Williams reports "In Kweiteh itself we have had (during 1920) thirty-six baptisms and others are now preparing. The Boys' School is of vital importance in that from its pupils is expected to be drawn the main supply of native male agents for the Diocese. Of it, Mr. Williams says "Our Boys' School has been quietly pursuing its usual course, but our school is very much handicapped at present by its very miserable quarters. The twenty boys from the substations boarding in the school have had to sleep two on a bed in two wretched, dark, damp little rooms, one 12 feet by 12 feet, and the other 12 feet by 16 feet, both so fixed that the sun never enters one and scarcely at all the other. This, of course, is unhealthy and undesirable in more ways than one. We have only one room 12 feet by 27 feet for our lower primary class room, and we have to limit the number of pupils for lack of space, but we can do no more than we can do with the equipment we are given."

From Kweiteh the Rev. W. M. Trivett carries on a very extensive and successful itinerant (evangelistic).

The statistics for the Diocese, given in the 1920 report, were.-1. Foreign Staff.—Male: Bishop, 1; clergy, 5; total 6. Female: Married women, 5; doctor, 1; nurse, 1; evangelists, 3; teachers, 3; total 13. Total Foreign Staff, 19.

II. Chinese Staff.-Male: Clergy, 1; catechists, 6; readers, 6; colporteurs, 3; doctor, 1; nurses (training), 2; medical helpers, 3; Christian teachers, 33; non-Christian teachers, 6; total 61. Female: Bible women, 8; teachers, 12; total 20. Total Chinese staff, 81. III. Conditions of the Church. Stations, 2; out-stations, 10; Communicants: Men, 174; women, 67; total, 241. Catchumens: Men, 220; women, 83; total, 303. Total Christian constituency, 742. Sunday Schools, 13; Sunday School teachers, 84; Sunday School pupils: Boys, 828; girls, 214; total, 1,042. IV. The Past Year's Work.-Baptisms: Male-infant, 10; adult, 83; total, 93; female-infant, 12; adult, 36; total, 48; total baptisms, 141. Confirmations: Male, 1; female, 19; total, 20. Received by transfer, 21. Lost by transfer, 40. Lapsed or excommunicated, 11. Burials, 12. Marriages, 3.

V. Educational Work.-Kindergarten, 1; pupils, 23. Lower primary schools, 21; pupils, 661. Higher Primary Schools, 4; pupils, 184. Middle School, 1; pupils, 36. Orphanage, 27. Various special students, 26. Total students all kinds, 957. Note.-Included in above grades are: St. Andrew's Boys' School, 108; St. Mary's Hall (girls), 63.

VI. Medical Work.-Hospital, 1; beds, 8; in-patients, 87; Operations: general anaesthesia, 24; local anaesthesia, 88; total, 112. Outpatients; First visits-Men, 2,977; women, 887; total, 3,864; return visits total 4,768. Total out-patients, 8,632.

3. THE DISTRICT OF KANGRA.

The Board of Management has given much careful thought to both the needs and limitations of the work in the Kangra District, together with the possibility of the assumption of added responsibilities outside the area; responsibilities which would be more in keeping in the future with the developed missionary resources of the Church and represent a more adequate contribution towards the solution of the religious and social requirements of India. In the meanwhile, pending the fullest possible further investigation and consideration of these important matters, it has been decided to limit the work in the Kangra District to such activities as may be carried on from the two fully manned and equipped stations of Kangra town and Palampur.

At Kangra the medical work, of a Zenana character, goes forward with much benefit and success. Of this work the Government Inspector recently reported in part, and in addition to the very large number of ordinary medical cases, 19,706, treated, as follows: "I inspected this Hospital on Monday, April 11th and was shown round by Miss Abdulla and Miss Macnaghten, Medical Missionaries, in charge. Everything in Hospital was beautifully clean and in good order, but some repairs to floors and roof are required. 10 Midwifery cases had been attended this year, up to date (April 11th) of these, six were abnormal. 41 cases had been attended last year, of these 30 were abnormal. A certificated compounder is employed, who is also qualified in midwifery, and helps with the training of the "dais or midwives." A trained nurse is also employed, besides these there were 2 Dais in training for posts in the

District.

There is also a trained Dai attached to the Hospital (paid by the District Board) who attends midwifery cases in the town and neighbourhood, taking always with her, one of the pupil dais who thus gets experience in normal cases. I consider this Hospital is supplying a very real need in this District, which is a very difficult one, as regards communications, scattered population and backwardness, etc. There is no medical aid for women of their own sex, provided by local funds, and were it not for the fact that local women can get training here as dais, the District would be without any trained women as midwives, for none but Kangra women will work in Kangra District, nor are these women willing to go out of the District for training—as it is, it is one of the Districts best supplied with trained Dais in the Province of the Punjab."

The girls' hostel or Boarding School, with about twenty-six girls in residence, is also doing a very excellent work.

At Palampur the Harriet Buchanan Memorial Hospital, in spite of very great difficulties in the matter of the supply of a qualified medical staff, has contributed very largely to the relief of the physical needs of the District. A woman medical student who for some years has been in training in Canada will, we trust, be available in the not distant future to take charge of this work.

The following extract shows the needs and possibilities of the medi cal work in the District:

"It was a glad day for us in Palampur when in June of this year the work started again and we hoped would continue on without a break. Miss Bishan Das, who came to join us was a graduate of Ludhiana Medical College, and was highly recommended by the doctors there, and in Amritsar, where she had worked previously. On arrival she took up her residence at the ladies' bungalow, and soon I found out what a fine character she had, and was one who really cared for the spiritual, as well as the medical side of the work. The number of out-patients gradually increased as the villages round about heard of a doctor's arrival and very soon in-patients were also admitted. Our hospital ver andahs which had been deserted were again seen with groups of

patients, their friends and relations, sitting listening to the Gospel message before proceeding into the dispensary to receive their medicines. Just as the work was, we thought, well established again the death of our doctor's brother in Palampur, under rather trying circumstances, caused her removal from our midst, and so it happened that for the third time since its opening in 1915, the doors of the hospital were closed again. A very urgent appeal has been sent to Canada, and we trust that soon we may hear of one who has answered the call, and is coming to carry on this needy work. Since coming out into camp, we have seen more than ever the need of a doctor for itineration work. Wherever our tents have been pitched and the word has gone out that medicines are given-numbers have come and after a few days those from a distance begin to arrive. Some are carried on the backs of others, some are brought on their beds and others on straw mats supported from bamboo poles."

The Mission is responsible also for the administration of the Palampur Leper Asylum, and for the beginnings of a promising work among the members of the criminal tribes placed, by the Government, upon the local tea plantations.

4. PALESTINE, EGYPT, SOUTH AMERICA.

With the close of the war Dr. H. Thwaites returned to Palestine and took up the post of Medical Director of the Hospital at Haifa, on the lower slopes of Mount Carmel overlooking the Bay of Acre. Dr. Thwaites in his last report, stated:

During the year, 318 patients have been admitted, of whom 127 were Christians, 129 Moslems, 50 Jews, and 12 others, mostly Druge. These admissions have been roughly two-thirds from Haifa and one-third from the surrounding villages. The outpatient attendances have been 2,476. The Jews who have come to us are mostly the new Jews who are migrating to Palestine in large numbers from Poland and Russia, they come here to escape persecution and threatened death, and are attracted by the idea of the National House which is included in the mandatory terms for Palestine. We are working on the lines of a general hospital