Vernon Memorial Hospital
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—No Theatre
IN our May issue we stated that the Australian 11th Light Horse (the late Dr. G. H. Ver non’s old regiment) had presented the Vernon Memorial Hospital with
an operating theatre. This is not so—what they presented was an examination table. Mr. and Mrs.
H. Standen, who are struggling to establish this hospital for aged and ailing Papuans in the mud of the Bamu River district of the Terri tory, say that they have not as yet reached the stage where they need
an operating theatre, anyway.
Nonetheless, in spite of all ob stacles, these missionaries ar bringing some medical aid to thes backward people who live amphi bious lives in the swamps of thi part of Papua.
Something of the isolation of th Standens, and their Mission in th Mud can be gained from the fac that Mrs. Standen was not able t correct our mistake made in Ma until August, and the letter sh wrote then at the end of August di not reach us until November.