REMARKABLE WOMAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 77, 1 April 1932, Page 9

REMARKABLE WOMAN.

Miss Hannah Riddell, whose death was reported recently from Kumamoto, on the island of Kiushui, South Japan, was the founder thirty-seven years ago of the leper hospital there, called the Hospital for the Resurrection of Hope, which she had run ever since with a Japanese staff of doctors and nurses and with the recognition and support of the Japanese Government. She went out in 1890 as a Church Missionary Society missionary, but later became an independent diocesan worker. She was not medically trained, but when in the early daj's of her work in Japan she saw lepers begging tinder the Cherry Tree Avenue at the temple of Honmyoji and learned that nothing was done to relieve their misery, she enlisted the assistance of friends, bought land, and started to build a hospital. This now stands in seven acres of garden, and its chapel, designed by Miss Riddell and opened in 1924, is one of the most beautiful in Japan. The Order of the Blue Ribbon was conferred upon her by the late Emperor in 1905, to be followed by the decoration of the sixth degree of the Sacred Treasure in 1924.