Africa has 135,000,000 inhabitants and 75 medical missionaries.
India has 300,000,000 inhabitants and 200 medical missionaries.
China has 350,000,000 inhabitants and 241 medical missionaries.
Japan has 42,000,000 inhabitants and 15 medical missionaries.
Turkey has 22,000,000 inhabitants and 38 medical missionaries.
Persia has 9,000,000 inhabitants and 11 medical missionaries.
Burmah has 7,500,000 inhabitants and 9 medical missionaries.
India alone contains 66,300 lunatics, 153,000 deaf and dumb,
354,000 blind and 400,000 lepers.
All missionary hospitals (Protestant) in the world can
accommodate 100,000 in-patients and 2,500,000 outpatients
annually.
These facts point to the need of men and means in order that the world
may be Christianized.
(2044)
See MEDICAL MISSIONS.