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parts of England; in Scotland thei-e are 14 houses, with St. Mary's Infant Asylum. Columbia Day In the entire Province the Sibters have 53 institu- Nursery, Boston, is taken care of by Sisters from tions, including indilstrial and poor-law schools, Carney Hospital, Boston. Therefore, although the special schools for the blind, deaf-mutes, and crip- number of houses in the Elastem Pix>vince is but pies, orphanages, and homes of different kinds. 76, the number of works is much greater. A bosks' They teach 48 elementary schools and 1 secondary school was recently opened (1918) in connection school. They visit the poor and have charge of with St. Mary's School, Troy, N. Y. There are various parish works and associations in 70 parishes, social service departments at St. Joseph's Hospital, They also visit 6 prisons, and nurse the poor in 9 Philadelphia, Pa., and Providence Hospital, Wash- hospitals, ington, D. C.

During the Franco-German War the Sisters nursed In the Western Providence, on 31 December, 1910, both French and German wounded and in the re- there were 744 Sisters in charge of 68 houses. On cent war about 6,000 Sisters nursed the wounded in 31 October, 1921, there were 849 Sisters in charge hospitals and ambulances, and even on the field of of 66 houses. Nine houses have been opened since battle. 1910, and one house (infant asylum in San Fran-

The following figures give some idea of the work cisco) has been closed. During 1920 the com- of the Sisters in foreign missions. In one mission munity took charge of a boys^ school in Mobile, in China, where there are 104,983 Christians, 400,000 and during 1921 of a boys' school in Santa Cruz, patients seek assistance from the Sisters in hos- as well as St. Patrick's School, St. Louis; but these pitals and dispensaries, and were there accommoda- three schools are attached to old works, and are tions the number could be increased tenfold. Also not counted above as new houses opened. In New in China, in a vicariate where there are 40 Sisters, Orleans, during 1921, two asylums were consoli- of whom 26 are Euf^peans and 16 Chinese: in 8 dated; a new work, a settlement, was opened in hospitals 3,176 men and 440 women have been re- the house formerly occupied by one of these asy- ceived; there are 166 old men and women in homes, lums, but it is not counted above as a new house, and 1,074 children are being educated; in 6 dis- The different works of the province include: 30 pensaries 198,806 remedies have been distributed, hospitals, of which 22 are general hospitals, 6 and 26,126 visits have been made to the sick in niatemities, and 2 for nervous patients only, with their homes. The imssions at Jerusalena, Bethlehem, ioo,000 patients cared for during the year, 23,000 and Nazareth mclude the care of lepers, bhnd, free patients in hospitals, and 166,000 treatments cripples, and deserted mfants, both Chnstians and in chnics; 20 schools with 7,200 pupils; 7 infant Turks receiving like ministrations. These works asylums sheltering 3,300 children; 11 orphan asy- were threatened with destructioii by the recent war. lums sheltering 2^00 children; 3 industrial schools; but a few Synan and Maronite Sisters have earned and 6 settlements. During the World War ten them on m spite of every difficulty. In Constan- gigters went to Italy, in charge of the nursing in tmople and other eastern missions from which Hospital Unit No 102.

French Sisters were banished, a few Syrian mem- The total number of institutions throughout the bers of the commumty contmue their works of ^orid is 3,359, including all sorts of charitable chanty. * ▼ • j »ir •« r j works, from infant asylums to homes for the aged

The beatification of Louise de Marillac, foundress ^nd schools of all grades. These are under the of the SjBters of Chanty, took place at Rome, charge (1 January, 1919) of 37,234 Sisters. ^V^}^L ^^f^^5^[ ^"^ martyred at Cambrai Sisters op Charity op St. Vincbsnt db Paul JSJ^^* ^^^? Madeleine Fontame, Jeanne Gerarc^ (Mount St. Vincent, Ne v York; of. C. E., III- Th^rfese Fantou^nd Mane Lanel, were beatified 607d).-.The mother-touse of this community, the 13 Jime, 1920. Two other Sisters martyred dunng novitiate with a finelv equipped training school, a*?i ^A^ Revolution were Sister Mananne and the College of Mt. Saint Vinoent (founded 1910), Si^cr Odile, who were shot by the revolutioniste ^ high school, and academy are situated at Mount 1 Febniary, 1793., r*u -, . ^u St. Vincent, N. Y. The superior general is the

XT TP^iS^y^^® of these Sisters of Chanty m the Arohbishop of New York, and the community is United Stat^ ^divided in 1910 into an Ea^rn governed V a councU consisting of the mother Proymce and Western Province. Very Rev J J. ^^j ^^^ y^^^ ^^^^ assistants, all residing at the Sullivan, C.M., Director of the Sisters and Sister mother-house, to which the ninety missions are Eugenia Fealy, Sister Assistant at Emimtsburg, subordinate. The present general superior is opened the Central House of the Western ^ovmce Mother Vincentia McKenna, elected in 1922 to suc- at St Louis, Mo. Fr. Sullivan was named Du^rtor, ceed Mother Josepha Cullen. The community and Sister Eugema Fealey, Visitatnx. Very Rev. numbers about 1500 members and has the f oUow- JL P. Oibbons, C. M., succeeded Fr. Sullivan as ing establishments in the Archdiocese of New York Director of the Eastern Province (Central House and the dioceses of Brooklyn, Albany, and Han-is- at Emmitsburg), and Mother Margaret O'Keefe buig: 1 college, 8 high schools, over 86 parochial was retained as Visitatnx. schools, 1 vocational school, 6 homes for children.

There are in the Eastern Province 1,033 Sisters including a foundling hospital with more than 3000 and 76 houses, 11 of which have been opened since children and 500 homeless and needy mothers, 1 1908. These institutions include: 32 hospitals, of day nursery, 9 hospitals, 3 convalescent homes, which 21 are general hospitals, 8 maternities, and 1 home for the ag^, 1 retreat for nervous and

3 for nervous patients only; 24 schools, of which mental diseases.

21 are day schools and 3 asylums and schools; 1 Sisters op Charity (Halifax, Nova Scotia).— The college, St. Joseph's, at Emmitdburg, Md.; 9 infant congregation of the Sisters of Charity in the Arch- asylums; 19 orphan asyliuns; 3 industrial schools; diocese of Halifax, whose mother-house is at Mount

4 day nurseries. In several of the establishments St. Vincent, Rockingham, N. S., is a branch of the two or three works are carried on. For example. Sisterhood founded in 1809 at Emmitdjurg, Mary- Providence Hospital, Detroit, is a general hospital; land, by the venerated Mother Seton. In 1846 thers it is also a maternity hospital and an infant asylum, were in the Archdiocese of New York several missions St. Vincent's Asylum, Buffalo, is known also as St. of the institute, and in that year a separate mother- Vincent's Technical School; and so of others. St. house was established for New York. In 1849, just Margaret's Hospital, Dorchester, Mass., is connected three years later, the superiors of the new congr^a-