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tion have been nursed by the Mission, for each 

 station has its European sick-room. Native patients 

 are brought by the steamers from the various lake- 

 shore villages. In 1908 six hundred in-patients 

 were treated in hospital, while out-patients numbered 

 thirty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty-eight. 

 Through their medical work the U.M.C.A. have 

 opportunities of reaching natives which otherwise 

 would be unattainable. 



Besides religious instruction and ordinary school- 

 ing, the teaching of a great deal of industrial work 

 is undertaken — printing, carpentering, engineering, 

 building, and other trades. 



The printing office is an important branch of the 

 Mission. Books are printed in Chinyanje, Yao, 

 and English. The carpenter's shop turned out the 

 whole of the woodwork of the cathedral and the 

 necessary furniture for the European houses. Other 

 natives are trained as stone-masons, carvers, and 

 some as sailors, for numerous boats are required to 

 ply between the island and mainland fetching food, 

 fuel, and building material. Many of the pupils 

 on leaving the Mission get employment under the 

 Government, and as far as possible an eye is kept 

 on their after careers. 



At the south end of the island is the Theo- 

 logical College of St. Andrew, where natives are 

 trained for the African Church. 



St. Michael's is a college on the mainland for 

 training teachers ; it was started in 1 900, and there 

 are some sixty students. Boys with an aptitude 

 are specially selected after passing an entrance ex- 



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