As soon as the masons had finished their work on the new wing of the hospital they began on another new building just beside it; a home for the doctor and Miss Hughes, also a gift from friends in America.  That, too, was completed by the end of 1908, and during Chinese New Year, a time when the hospital work was less pressing, Dr. Stone and Miss Hughes took a trip to Shanghai to buy furniture for it.  It is easy for one who saw the doctor then to imagine the keenness with which she noticed every detail in the American hospitals, for while visiting in the homes of friends in Shanghai nothing escaped her quick eye.  Miss Hughes’ attention was constantly called to things that pleased the doctor’s taste by her often reiterated, “Look here!  We must have this in our home.”  “Miss Hughes and I shall try to make our home so homey,” she wrote to a friend, “and we shall open it for everybody, the everyday, common folks as well as the Tai-tais.”

The next addition to the hospital property was a home for the nurses, money for which had been pledged during Dr. Stone’s stay in America.  As soon as the funds were sent out building was commenced, and in March, 1909, the nurses moved into their new home.  The accommodations of the hospital were thus enlarged still further, and moreover the nurses had a far more restful environment in which to spend the hours when they were off duty.

[Illustration:  Nurses of the Danforth Memorial Hospital]

One who met Dr. Stone in America spoke of the great impression made upon her by the doctor’s ability to do many things.  The demands upon the physician in entire charge of the large Danforth Memorial Hospital are indeed many and varied, but Dr. Stone has proved equal to them all.

She is a good general practitioner.  Probably the best proof of this is the number of patients who throng the hospital gates.  In 1908 she reported, “Last month we saw over 1,700 people in the hospital and dispensary, and in April we saw over 1,800.”  A year later she wrote, “Taking the statistics for last month I found we treated 2,743 in the month of April.”  Her successful treatment of the most difficult diseases is all the more remarkable to one who knows the tendency of many Chinese not to consult a physician until the patient is at the point of death.  Their utter lack of knowledge of the simplest rules for the care of the sick, and the dreadful surroundings in which so many of them live, produce, in those who are brought to the doctor after long weeks of suffering, conditions which are almost too terrible to describe.

The words of a fellow-missionary throw light on the difficult character of Dr. Stone’s work: