MEDICAL MISSIONARIES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12569, 11 August 1906, Page 13

MEDICAL MISSIONARIES.

'- • Pastor Will*. Borenaei., the able , editor©* "Nordisk Missione-Tidsekrift," 1 hue compiled an admirable brochure, giving » brief history of the origin, and growth of medical miseionß and a eurvey of medical missionary work * tbrouahoirt the war-Id. In 1861 tho number oi medical missionaries, with i British qualifications did: not exceed twenty. In 1860 the number bad - risen to 100, and in 1905 the number 1 waa 357.. The number of women medlical missionaries has grown very . ■* rapidly. The first weoit out to India - in 1880. In 1890 the number was twelve, and in 1905 the number was 7 105. The total number of medical mia-ionaries in the service of British Missionary Societies is. 373. British Colonial Churches send out thirty-one ( medical missionaries, of whom eight are '} women; and the U.S.A. Societies, 171 ?. % men aim 126 woman. The European - Continent sands cut thirty-eight— • naicely, eighteen, from Germany, , twelve froni the Soa-ndimavian Socie'i ties, four from Holland, three from : France, and one from Switzerland. Dr. cC FoWmann estimates that' there are at ' - least fifty medical missionaries, of whom ten aire women, who are labouring lindependently. Tho number of metrical missionaries engaged mi active . work on the foreign field is therefore •bout YBO, upwards of 240 being women doctors. There art* not less than 405 mission hospitals, at " which. 90,000 Citierats are nursed; and it is calouted that tbe 780 medical mi_«ionuries treat considerably more than two mil- - Ken patianta every year. The most of ' these dtoctors and hospitals are in India a<nd China; indeed, three-fifths of the medical mifisionaries are settled in these lands.