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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m^thode. 2 3 5 6 MICROCOPY RESOLUTION TEST CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) 1.0 I.I 1.25 1^ 156 2.8 3.2 ■ 3.6 I 4.0 1.4 2.5 1 2.2 2.0 1.8 1.6 A APPLIED IM/^GE Inc 1653 East ^ain Street Rochester, New York 14609 USA (716) 482 - 0300 - F one (716) 288 - 5989 - Fax 31 W'%''':- X. «♦ ♦ ♦ ,.«' Story of 6oed Satttaritati Cbicacok. TMdia. x ./ .If. ■ *■■ . , ■ V • I V . * ' ■ ■ • i>- \ . t — ^«/- -^ ^ ^ -M ^ --A^ HOSPITAL STAFF AND QROL^ ^n^-M-^ V- Julia, Prescription (iiiwifc iiml NtirHc. Coiupoundcr. \li-<V" 'i. "-«■: ,/s'j;^^ ■ - V ^'>^N. .^ ;^/^"^ ^^ ;^ ^ Story of ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Good Sattiailfan hospital « « « CWcacoIe, Titdia. >.\3';^^^ f^TTTTT DURING the nine months ending April 30th, 1901, the total number of patients treated at the Good Samaritan Hospital was 2.403; while the total number of treat- ments was 8.130. About two-thirds of these were from the various castes, 250 from Moham- medans and the balance from outcastes. Several in-patients have been received and 51 operations have been performed. The population of four of our mission fields is twelve hundred thousand (1.200.030), and this is the only Hospital especially for women and children for all this great host. So, from long distances, patients are coming to the Good Samaritan Hospital at Chicacole. I- t '4 ' r.'r * ( V 1^.^^ Wh«n I w^nt to ChIcAool€ as e sin- gle lady missionary. In the spring of 1880. to take charge of the work laid dorwn by Mr. and Mre. AnnBtTX>ng. there wm quite a large boarding school of boys and gtrle. The girls' house "^as located on one end of the com- pound, around which there was no wall, and consequently was open to the public on every side. Any mis- sionary would know how Impossible it was to guard native girls under thes.-> circumstances. Adjoining our com- pound on the girls' side was a piece of land, on which was situated a va- cant house, once used by Europeans, but then owned by natives. This housa was often a rendezvous for men of the baser sort, and many days and nlgTits of anxiety, heartache and tears, were mine, because of its relation to my girls. As a protective measure I resolved that this place Should B« Purchased l>y the mission, and instituted en- quiries as to the ownership, and had .r-J the records in the regiistration office examined for titles. There were a num- ber of heirs, and these would not agree as to a selling price, and my suooeosar at Chlcaooie foiind and left after five years, this matter in this very uasatisfactory state. Trouble with our g-iris never ceas- ed, but decre-ased. and when in 1887 Mr. Archibald and I took charge of the field, there was ample demand for renewed endeavor to secvire this pro- perty, but the number of heirs was still unworkably large. As the years passeid by, there was talk of the government purchasing the property, and converting the house into what is know^n in India as a travellers' bunigalo''\ Thia meant that at any time of day or night trav- ellers, with tiheir native servants, might arrive and perhaps spend days, witli.in easy talking distance of our girls. Again the town council thought of buying it for school purposes, and this was even worse for us than for the contemplated government project. Both of these parties had power in thf^ir hands, which we had not, and had ways and means of disposing of the heirs which were rot within oxir reach, and we often prayed that God would save us from this calamity, for that it would be and nothing less- A good wall had been put around our compcrund, but a helg-ht Oif four feet is not a serious obstacil'e In this coun- try or that. Mr. Archibald has spent days talking with the heii's, and time and again we would think a bargain was about completed, when some neiw difficulty would arise. Here it was that The Famine of 1896 found us, and as the history of tne hospital is closely connected with this gaunt sipeotre, we will look for a mo- ment at the causes of these oft-re- curring calamities. In India we have two prevailing winds, one Wowing from the south-west, the other from the north-east. During the spring months the former bl'ows up over the Indian Ocean, and ajssisted by con- stant and excessive evaporation, i.s suipposed to bring on its winga, about the middle of June, heavy clouds of rain which are poured out over the thirsty land. These winds blow every year, but every year they do- 6 jiot bring the longednfor rain, though the aaanft sun shines In the blue sky mix>n the blue watei^ below, and as far as we oan see csonditions for evap- oration are as good one year as an- other. As rioe, the principal grain, in our part of the oouutry, requires wet cultivation, and vaxit be sown on ^standing water and tTiinsplanted into fields that have been flooded by rains or irrigatioTi, It is plain that if the rainj fail the grain cannot be grown. Th:^ government may dig tanks or set in order large irrigation works, as it does all over the lend, but if the rains do not come the tanks remain empty, and the irrigation works idle. He who holds the treasures of the Bnaw a>nd the rain must send them, or we watoh for them in vain, and as vainly do the idolaAors sacrifice to, uud cry unto their idols, which can- not do good, neither is It in them to do evil. And here let me offer Some Small Tribute to the governiment servant, the white man, who stands at his post with a grim determinartJian to do hie duty. 4> Ik 4> In such stress as this my axiinira- tlon for these men is almost unbound- ed. The soldier goes to battle En- couraged and enthused by the pomp and parecemiber. At this juncture, Tvihen every "white giovemment of- ficial in the country — and there were only a few of th^^m— and every mis- sionary had been working at the high- 10 est pressure for months, when every nerve had been stretched. It seemed, to its utmost tension, two of these young men fell sick about the same time- Both of them were asslsitants to the collector. The heajdquarters of one was at Chicacole, that of the other at Berham-pore, one hundred miles distant. We feared for the one* in our town. Alone With His Native Servants so Mr. Archibald asked him to come to our house, where he could be looked after better, w^hlch Invitajtlon, after some demurring, he accepted. He was very ill, and weeks later, on the day that he was feebly able to remove to his own house, his brother officer in the other town passed away. While in our house the genUeme,n kneiw that not only wias he being ministered to, but that a good number of natives were receiving similar attention, and repeatedly he said, "Yooi should have a hospital," and later on he said, "I will help you with a hospital," going on to say, "Could you not use this building you are repairing?" When he was able to walk that short dis- I 1 11 tanci. we all went over and decided that these bulldingrs vculd serve this new purpose, and thereafter all work thereon was done -with this in view. When communicated with uur board said, "We cannot assume further financial responsibilities," while the W. B. M. U- said, "We are able and willing to help." and just about this time our native woman, Julia, return- ed with her certif jate as a trained nurse, though this means something much more limited than a nurse's training over here. So within a few days matters so came to a climax that, without previous arrangement or planning in this direction, we had A Hodest Hospital with its first equipment of medicines and a native nurse in view. Will you readers say whether or not God had been working wihen we knew it not? We did not quite see where all the money for upkeep and necessary en- largement was to come from, but we felt it was of the Lord, so even if we diid not see all the way through, it was ouirs to go on and trust for light, a^ it was needed. We decided 12 to put all we oould spare from our own salary into this department, and beigran to look for a lady to take charge of the hospital, to which Miss WrlR-ht g-ave the name (< Oood SAmaxitan. » In June of '99 the hospital was open- ed, but in July Mr. Archibald's health failed so seriously that we were sud- denly obliged to start for Canada. Inmpenable obstaicles came In the way, and for a time the hospdtal was clos- edt but was re-opened in August of 1900 under the efficient mana^re'nient of Miss Florence D'SMva, and has since been accomplishing a most satisfac- tory work, aa manifested by the cir- cular recently published. When Mr. Archibald and I were Oblig-ed to Leave India we realized that our salary oould not be depended upon, and that sorrie more secure financial basis must be assured to this work or it mlgrht fail at amy time. And it w*s then that the plan of an eridowment presented Itself, and we wish to rals* at least JIO.OOO for this purpose. 13 There are no chem'sts or drug stores outBlde of the large cities, such as Madr-as and Calcutta, so we indent from time to time for supplies of med- icine and ke?p them In the hospital, so that we have a iispansary as well. The patients come to one room, where Mlas D'Silva examines and writes their prescriptions, which they take to the compounder in another room and have them fHUd. We have -wards for those Who nnLUSt remain in hospital for any length of time, and about twenty-five dollars a year are required to sustain one of these beds. Two friends have given pledges for five hundred dollars each, the annual interest of which in each case will go to maintain a patient, In one of these we.fds. This is what we mean by en- dowing a bed. Of the $10,000 referred to above, we naw have about $4,000 In cash and in pledges. Of this amount $1,036.10 ss from New Brunswick, and $91 from Prince Edward Island. During Uie next thre-e months we could probably raise the balance, but we leave St. John for India October 14 20th and trust that friends Interested In this grreat work will send In the bal- -aaioe to Dr. J. W. Manning, Secretary- 'Preasoirer of tihe Foreign Mlj^slon Board (St. John, N. B.,) by which body It will be most carefully invested. CAROLYN H. ARCHIBALD. I. CHIPMAN ARCHIBALD. Halifax, October »th, 1901. ♦ The Endowment Fund Record Record of cp-zI and pledges toward the €ndowmfn»t af the Good Samaritan hos- pital, Chlcacole, India, from Nova Scotia contributors: C. B. Young. Falmouth $500.00 Mre. C. E. YOung, Falmouth 2.00 Mrs. Ma.\ S. Freeman, Wolfville. 250.(»0 J. Howard Barss, Wolfville 500.00 W. C. Archibald, Wolfville 200.00 E. N. Archibald, Wolfville lOO 00 ^- B. DeWltt, M. D. W , ne.... lo.oo Mlsa Maggie Bares, Wolfville.... 50.00 Dr. Thos. Trotter, Wolfville 30 00 Dr. A. C, Chute. Wolfville 25 00 Colin W. Roscoe. Wolfville lo'oo Captain S. R. and Mrs. Giffln Isaac's Harbor g oq Mrs. C. H. Harrington, Sydney.*.'.'.' 5.". • Miss Sadie Harrington, Sydney.... 2.00 Timothy Phillips, Glace Bay 5 oo Mr* Theodore Martell, Glace Bav.. i.'oo Mr. and Mrs. J. D. McPherson. 1.* ^°r* Hawkisbury 1.50 Mrs. A. C. Paint, Port Hawkesbury 5.00 Edward Dorlay ^^ 1.1 MlM Qrant, North Sydney 5.00 Mrs. Parker 5.00 Mlsfl Liongmald 5.00 A. J. McKenna, M. D. Wolfvllle.. 10.00 0. R. Burgeaa. Wolf vile 20.00 Mrs. M. S. DeBloto 5.00 A. W. Sawyer, D. D., Wolfvllle.... 5.00 A. D. Elderkin, Wolfvllle 5.00 T. A. HiggilM, D. D.. Wolfvllle.... 5.00 Mm. L. C. Hutchison. Wolfvllle.. 2.00 G. M. Peck and wife, Wolfvllle.... 10.00 Mrs. W. C. Archibald, Wolfvllle.... 2.00 J. Hlllot Smith. Wolf A in 5.00 G. W. Borden, Woll. le 5.00 Mrs. M. A. Blla, Wol.vllle 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Chipiaan, Wolfvllle 25.00 Geo. S. Holmes, Han/tsport 1.