Peiyang Woman's Hospital, Tientsin, China.My dear Miss Turner:
Before the rushed season comes in I like to get off a letter to you. This is the twentieth of May already. By the time my letter reashes [sic] you, you would be having your summer vacation. How I wish that you could spend a part of your summer vacation with me at beach. I have rented a small cottage at Peitaiho for members of hospital staff. My vacation does not come until late in August. I am sending others away first. I have three friends who are expceting [sic] to have babies July and first week of August. They are my good friends and I have promised to be their doctor. Time flies. It was in spring of 1914 that I planned to come to America for higher education. This is 1924. Ten years have gone by. Many changes have taken places. Within the next ten years I hope to put this hospital as a most uptodate [sic] institution at Tientsin. Just now I am getting my staff formed. Dr. Chu my assistant is going to America next year for further training. I am also sending a girl for Nurse training. She is a graduate of McTyeire High School. She is a girl of capacity. I am not in position to send her to college therefore I have to send her direct to hospital which is really against my will. I saw in Miss Wooley's report that Mount Holyoke offers a full scholarship to a Chinese girl but I do not know if it is being used. The most important thing for our country is to get her leaders trained and her people educated. There are many changes, but people cannot appreciate them without education.
Since the beginning of May we have another dispensary opened in a crowded village five miles from here. We go there twice a week. There are more than ten thousand families and there is not one single doctor. During the measle epidemic babies died of pneumonia by the hundreds. This preventive incident led me to open a substation there. I spent three most valuable months at Willard Parker Hospital at New York City. The training I obtained there aids me in diagnosis of all specific infectious diseases. I want to have a permanent dispensary there as soon as I can get enough fund from my friends. It is encouraging that my well to do patients are interested in our work among poor. Within our work we have a country school of one hundred twenty children, a day school of thirty girls, an industrial school of twenty girls, and a workshop for our poor patients. We also have a night school now for our help and some younger patients. Soon I hope to gain entrance to factories. Girls and women in our factories are being denied of medical care becuase [sic] our capitalists are selfish. One company is building a new factory and I have succeeded in urging the authority to provide medical care for their workers. I shall have control of their medical department. Soon I hope other companies would follow this example. It takes time to change public opinion. I never can understand why some people just seek after wealth and nothing else.
My time is so occupied that I only have time for medical journals. Ohter [sic] magazines of interest have to be side dishes. I read in our papers of your oil scandal in America but I do not know the truth of the affair. From papers President Coolidge seems to be an honest good man. It seems that the political world has an entirely different ethical code of itsown. [sic]
This letter was started afew [sic] days ago. During the last two days I had two very hard obstetrical acses. [sic] One was a transverse position and the other a hydorcephalus. [sic] From medical point of view they were interesting. But they were bad cases. They have been badly infected by midwives. It would take hundred years yet before people would call upon doctors for confinement cases. Our southern people are much more progressive. They usually call upon doctors.
I hope that this letter would find you in the best of health. My wish is that you would have a good restful summer. With much love.
Yours lovingly.
M. I. Ting.May 30, 1924.