Clever B.S.I. Mission Sisters

Three of the qualified nurses at the Melanesian Mission hospital on Malaita Island in the British Solomon Islands are shown in this photograph, which is repro duced by courtesy of Major H. S. N.

Robinson. They are, from left to right, Nurse Edith Piggott, Nurse Estelle Field, and Nurse P. McKenzie, of New Zealand, who have been working at the hos-

pital on Malaita for over two years.

The native woman in the photograph owes her life to the skill and ability of the three nurses. Recently, when the Medical Officer was absent from the hos pital on duty, the woman was brought in suffering from a severe attack of tropical ulcer. The ulcer had been neglected for a long period, and

the unfortu nate woman’s leg was in an advanced stage of de composition; obviously it was a case of life and death.

The nurses immediate1y performed an intricate ope ration and amputated the leg. The operation was successful, and the prompt ac tion of the clever sisters saved the woman’s life.