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places78 MISSIONS AND CHURCHES..p, During flip year thp primary schoolsEducation J J,%enrolled a , larger number of boys and girlsthan last yrjir. The receipts from tuitions increased. Insevern distinct Iprogress was jmide in 1relating theschools 1o tlie higher schools on Ilie one hand, and to thedemand of life on the other. In Shansi local boards oftrustees were appointed for the lower primary schools. Thisbody receives the appropriation from the mission, collectslocal fees and manages the school. In the Ing Tai stationof the Foocliow Mission the churches and the villagers arcco-operating in eight lower primary schools. Teachertrainingfor these schools is receiving larger emphasis. InTaikuhsien, Shansi, a course for teachers to extend overseveral years has been given in the summer normal trainingschool which has been running for the last two years. Themiddle schools are reaching a wider constituency andimproving their work.The North China Mission isUn joaco-operating inthe Union Theological College at Peking.The South China Mission is co-operating in the CantonUnion Theological College which enrolled forty-eightstudents. In Foocliow the Fukien Union College wasorganized. This will form the nucleus of the FukienChristian University. It opened in HOG with eighty-fivestudents in the Freshman and Sophomore classes. It is nothampered by a preparatory department though then- areeleven mission middle schools in the province which will actas feeders., - , , ITVTThe medical work has made progress inMedical work . . . all ...places. In Shantung in connection withthe men s and Avomen s hospitals a dispensary eircuitcovering ten cities has been inaugurated. A TrainingSchool for nurses, the first in Shantung, was established atTehchow. At Taikuhsien, Shansi, a woman nurse, foreigntrained,was added to the staif, and 1 wo branch dispensaries,each opened four or live daysa month, were established. Inthe last three months of 1915, 2^4 patients were treated atthese dispensaries. .At Foocliow the hospital is installing anew sterilizing plant and an X-ray apparatus.