Edith H. Allen

Capitolo 65

you/he/she can be found here.

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"The military occupation of Rico of I Bring it attracted the attention of
the Christian churches of the United States to their opportunity
and the responsibility to send the light of the true Gospel to that
island where you/he/she had never penetrated. Soon after these the investigations
of a surgeon to serve in the military the important done showed that ninety
for cent of the population that he/she works some island it was stricken with
the illness of hook-worm. Separately from the other illnesses that were present,
here is a great economic and humanitarian problem. The government
you/he/she had done a lot, but of other agencies were had elsewhere need as, if the
physical ills of the Ricans of I Bring you/he/she would be recovered. In answer to
this need her Dr. Grace that Atkins has gone to Rico of I Bring in 1900 as the first one
medical missionary under the Board of the Donna of House Missioni of the
Presbyterian church. You started a clinic in a rented room of her
hotels, and it treated a lot of ill people in their houses. Being thrilled
with as small you/he/she could do so in for many that were seriously her
ill, or that it had need operations, she exhorted on the Board the erection
of a hospital. In answer to his/her call in the church, in February,
1904, the present buildings of hospital to San Juan were open
receives patient. There were forty-five beds and, to that duration,
this was the only hospital on the island where they were able the patients
is properly treated.

"What need there is for the job and that the hospital is
meeting that need has shown from the number of those that you/they come
for treatment. This has increased since seven thousand in 1907
to more than nineteen thousand in 1914. The majority of these naturally
you/he/she is treated in the pharmacy, where a clinic is contained daily, except
Domenica. Monday every day is forced to treat those that come the,
I number that two hundred arrive to almost durations. Many come in from the