doctor who was a natural teacher; and then it became an institution, and then part of a college.  And in all this there may have been no definite policy, any more than there was any definite policy in the guidance of its twin brother, which, instead of changing its character, remained what it had always been, the point of a sword, only buried in a rock, competing feebly with a Government institution.  When one writes of mixed motives, and mixed policies, and mixed methods, it is natural to use mixed metaphors.

But to return to our point.  It is not easy to say what some hospitals are there for.  If we knew, we could at least formulate tables to set out the progress which they have made towards the object proposed.  That would be reasonable survey as we have defined it.  To collect all possible information concerning all the things which the doctor or hospital might do, or may be doing, unrelated to any end, is to collect a mass of information which we cannot use; and that we have declined to do.  What course then can we pursue?  We propose first to accept the notion that the medical mission is there to supply a medical need of the people, and to consider how far it does that; and then to look at the medical work at the station as definitely designed to assist the evangelisation of the people, as evangelistic in its purpose.  We have, therefore, designed a double set of tables to serve these two purposes.

First, tables to show the medical work in relation to the presumed need of the district for western medicine.

Here, as before for evangelistic work, so now for medical, we have expressed the relation between the medical work and the district in terms both of area and population in order that each table may be a check upon the other.  Thus:—­

(i) In terms of area.

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|     |Number of|           |          |         |
|     |Qualified|Number of  |Number of |Number of|Number of
|     |Medicals.|Assistants.|Hospitals.| Nurses. |Dispens-
|     |         |           |          |         |aries. 
District.|Area.|---------|-----------|----------|---------|-

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|     | M. | F. | M.  | F.  |For | For | M. | F. |
|     |    |    |     |     |men |women|    |    |
---------|-----|----|----|-----|-----|----|-----|----|----|-

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|     |    |    |     |     |    |     |    |    |
|     |    |    |     |     |    |     |    |    |
|     |    |    |     |     |    |     |    |    |
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|     |    |    |     |     |    |     |    |    |
_________|_____|____|____|_____|_____|____|_____|____|____|_

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(ii) In terms of population.