and dispensaries; but it is not surprising that patients are willing to enrol their names as inquirers simply to please the doctors or nurses, without any intention of pursuing the matter further when they leave the hospital; and consequently such a question by itself might be very misleading.  We therefore add two further questions, the first, what number of communicants trace their conversion to their visits to hospitals or dispensaries, the second, what number of places have been opened to Christian teachers and preachers by the influence of doctors and patients.  Some missionary doctors are much interested in this inquiry, and we all might well be interested in it.  The answers would be a most important contribution to our study, and might go far to justify medical missions as an evangelistic agency.

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Number of Inquirers Enrolled in the Year as a Direct    |     |
Consequence of Attendance at Hospitals and Dispensaries.|     |
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Proportion of Total Inquirers.                          |     |
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Enrolled in the Year.                                   |     |
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Number of Communicants Derived from Attendance          |     |
at Hospitals and Dispensaries in the Year.              |     |
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Proportion of Communicants Enrolled in the Year.        |     |
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Number of Places Opened to Christian Teachers through   |     |
the Influence of Doctors or Patients in the Year.       |     |
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Proportion of Total Places Opened in the Year.          |     |
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Conclusions and Remarks.                                |     |
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CHAPTER VI.

EDUCATIONAL WORK IN THE STATION DISTRICT.

The difficulty of providing tables for the survey of educational work is as great as that of finding tables for medical work, and for the same reasons.  There is the same separateness, the same diversity of immediate aim, the same alteration of character, the same uncertainty of policy.

Educational missions have been designed to convert the young whilst they were yet pliable, to influence the growing generation in order to prepare for a great advance of Christianity later, to Christianise society, to educate young Christians in a Christian atmosphere, to prepare leaders for the Christian Church, to elevate an ignorant and illiterate Christian Church.  All these various objects have been set before us as the reasons for the establishment of schools, both