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PROVINCIAL SURVEYS 441and private high schools, located in llu- following magistracies: one in Tantu. one in Rukao, two in Kiaugtu, twoin Shanyang. one in Tongshan, and one in Tonghai.More suggestive still are the figures forMedkalmission medical work. In the southern thirdof the province there are fifteen hospitals,thirty-eight physicians (exclusive of Harvard Medical Schooland other not distinctively missionary institutions), thirteenforeign trained nurses; and one hundred sixty Chinesetrained nurses. In the northern section there are sevenhospitals, eleven physicians, one foreign trained nurse, andthree Chinese trained nurses.The territory of the North Kiangsu Mission,S^tfir embraces the threeINortn magistracies of Chintan,i\.iang su rr , n rr ^- , , ., ,. , , -,Mission Tanyang, and Tantu south ot the River, and(with the exception of certain magistraciespresently to be indicated) all of that part of the provincenorth of the River and north of a straight line drawn fromPcnniu on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway to the coast ofthe Yellow Sea on the East. There are thirty-one magistraciesnorth of the River. These magistracies are from two to fivetimes as large as those south of the River; and more thantwo-thirds of the total area of the province is embraced inthis northern section.A brief glance at the stations occupied in this field,will give a better understanding of the work.1. The Chinkiang field includes the five magistraciesof Chintan, Tanyang, Tantu, Yangchong, and Taihsing,embracing a population of 2,000,000 people.2. The Taichow territory is the two magistracies ofTaihsien and Rukao, together with the southern half ofTongtai (including the city of Tongtai), the entire fieldhaving a population of 1,250,000.3. Yencheng station is responsible for the territory embraced in the magistracies of Yencheng, Funing, the northernpart of Tongtai, and unworked sections of Hsinghwa,and Lienshwei . This territory also embraces a total population of 1,250,000.4. The Tsingkiang and Hwaian field embraces themagistracies of Hwaiying, Hwaian, Sziyang, Paoying, audA 55