MISSION TO LEPERS
In view of the closing of the financial year of the Mission to Lepers the box collectors, under the direction of the honorary local secretary, Mrs A. Irwin, are now engaged in their worthy task. A special effort is being made to make this a record year. The amount from Christchurch last year was £2BO, £SO more than the previous year;. and for the Canterbury area £4OO, against £340 for 1937. So far this year the amount from Christchurch is £l7O. and a special gift of £45, for a cottage hospital has also been received. • The Mission to Lepers co-operates with 37 other . Protestant missions operating in India, Africa, and the Far East. There are 17,000 inmates to be provided for daily. The work is steadily growing, and the need of the outcasts among whom the mission works is very great. Many have to be turned away daily for lack of accommodation. The medical treatment is meeting with . creditable results, from 1700 to 2000' being discharged annually. They are instructed in industrial and professional pursuits so that they return as useful members of society without danger to others.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22850, 25 October 1939, Page 13
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