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150 its work in 1887, when Medak was fifty miles from any railway station, and its remarkable success is due to the three pioneer workers, the Rev. Charles Posnett, his sister, Miss Posnett, and her friend, Miss Sara Harris. When Mr. Posnett in 1887 applied for a piece of land at Medak on which to build " an outcast church," the government of that period gave him the city dung-hill ! Now he is a person whom the government of to-day fully appreciates. And even among the people whom he desired to help, Mr. Posnett met with much opposition until the doctor, Miss Posnett, and the hospital nurse, Miss Sara Harris, had won the confidence of the women of Medak by their medical and surgical treatment. In 1903 a large Zenana Hospital was built, chiefly with the help of Mr. Posnett's relations and friends in England, and last year (1913), 831 in-patients and 13,800 out-patients were treated in this hospital and 2,660 in the village dispensaries round Medak. There are now in the boarding schools of the Mission 113 boys and 125 girls, and in the 51 village schools 701 children, and in the Theological College, 41 students. A great deal of famine relief work has been done by this mission,