them would have been more easily seen; but since they were separated in thought, each having its own particular and separate objects to pursue, they naturally worked along parallel lines and consequently did not meet.  If they had had one common dominant object they would have met.  But generally speaking there is no clear understanding whether the medical mission has any definite relation to the educational mission, or the educational mission to the medical.

On the medical side, it is not clearly understood whether it is the first duty, or the last duty, of medicals to attend to the children whom we gather together in such large numbers, whether the medicals ought to inspect all the children, whether they ought to be at hand to treat children who are obviously sick, whether these considerations ought to influence the location of the hospital, or of the place of residence of the medical missionaries, or whether this work, if they really gave much time to it, should be considered as withdrawing them from their proper work.  Consequently, the health of the children in mission schools has often suffered, and the work of the school been hindered.  In one school something approaching to a revolution was produced by the constant care and attention of a doctor.  Phthisis, which had been a continual source of trouble and weakness, was reduced considerably, and the whole work and tone of the school improved enormously.  If medical missionaries and educational missionaries always realised that they were engaged in a common work, this experience would be almost universal.

In our tables we cannot possibly enter into any details.  The work of medicals in schools cannot be exactly stated, it varies greatly in extent and character; but it would, we suppose, always include attention to the health of the children and consultation with the teachers, both about the welfare of the school as a whole and of the care of individual pupils.  It might also include lectures in hygiene and kindred topics, sanitation of buildings, and other assistance too varied to specify.

The table can only include visits and inspection of pupils.

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Total       | Number     | Total     |  Number    | Remarks
Number      | Regularly  | Number    | Regularly  | and
of Schools. | Visited by | of        | Inspected. | Conclusions.
| Medicals.  | Scholars. |            |
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The relation of the educational mission to the medical has not been thought out any more carefully.  There is in hospitals an opportunity of extraordinary importance, a field of great fruitfulness which is largely neglected.  If the hospital is a missionary hospital, founded to heal the souls as well as the