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8 NEGLECTED ARABIA '

Many of the doctors include in their reports their thanks to the
donors of Sewing Guild boxes. With the shortage of funds now
being constantly faced, the value and help of the Guild boxes cannot
be overestimated. May they keep coming in ever increasing i
abundance so that our small hospital appropriations may not need to
be spent on cotton, gauze, linen ami bandages but can go for the .,
greatly needed medicines. Those societies which have sent boxei
please send some again, and those which have not are recommended
to try doing so that they may experience the thrill of pleasure •
which will surely accrue in the giving of something so worth-while
and so sorely needed.
The following statistics* do not show the many weary hours of
labor on the part of the doctors and nurses, oftentimes in sweltering
heat, nor the thrills of sympathy for the diseased and broken bodies,
nor the infinite care and patience in the binding up of the wounds, \
nor the skill in the performance of difficult operations but they do
show that a great deal has been accomplished in restoring health to .
many needy Moslems. We pray that the Great Physician of whom
they heard as they were being ministered unto will enter the hearts
of many and draw them unto Himself. .:
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Statistics
Muscat Bahrain Kuwait Amarah Total
Men’s Disp. New Cases.. ----- 4,500 2738 1,875 9,113
Total Treatments .... ----- 11,000 15,550 7,134 33,684
Women’s Disp. New Cases 1,894 2,764 5,615 1,676 11,949
Total Treatments — 7,486 10,696 18747 . 3,310 39,739
Men’s Outcalls ... 200 331 340 871
Women’s Outcalls 73 315 310 698
In-patients, Men .. 325 116 441
In-patients, Women 31 94 76 22 301
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Surg. Operations, Men... ----- 507 259 724
Surg. Operations, Women 25 61 345
Obstetrics 35 3

THROUGH TEACHING TO THE GREAT TEACHER
The Mission has maintained schools lor boys in Muscat, Bahrain,
Kuwait and Basrah. The closing of the Ashar school leaves uj
only two schools for srirls in Arabia, one in Bahrain and one in
Basrah.
The boys’ schools in Muscat and Kuwait are in charge of the
evangelistic workers of those stations who necessarily cannot there-
fore devote more than part time to the schools. Of Muscat Mr. Van
Pcurscm writes, “The boys’ school has continued to he the main
lever in the Men’s Evangelistic work. The boys of course come for
English. But before they recite their English lesson, they are re-
cjuired to read a lesson in Arabic. We insist on their learning
Arabic first of all. In this way we were able to teach the boys the.
Sermon on the Mount, much of which was committed to memory.
Dr. Calverley says of the Kuwait school, The school is small,
with sixteen on the roll, but it is worth while, for the majority of