The Swatow Leper Colony is located on a small island about four miles from the city. The colony is entirely supported by the municipal government to the amount of $600 a month. At the time of my visit there were forty-one lepers, of whom six were women and girls. Dr. Yih Tseng-gi, a Baptist physician, went to the colony once every week to give injections of chaulmoogra oil. Mr. Tsai Yong-yi, the director of the colony, was very courteous in inviting our party to tiffin at his simple residence, which is altogether too close to the main building. A demarcation line, over which no leper was allowed to step, was drawn. A heavy guard was placed to keep order and to prevent the lepers from escaping. Excepting the use of the chaulmoogra oil, the institution was poorly managed. As the delegation of the three men appointed by the whole body of lepers told me in their interview, they have not sufficient food to eat, and some of them have no beds on which to sleep, and no mosquito nets in summer. ... No religion was tolerated. There was no provision made in the way of recreation, work, or education, so these wretched men and women were kept absolutely idle. Consequently they were discontenteed, restless and would run away at the first chance they could get.

Tai-kam Island is, as the crow flies, about one hundred miles from the Southern metropolis. It has become famous as a leper colony not only because of its wonderful and unique place and big plans that promise to make it a model leper colony in China, but also because it has a historical significance. The late Dr. Wu Ting-fang, admiring the sacrificial spirit and indefatigable efforts of Rev. and Mrs. John Lake in trying to help the poor lepers in the Sz Yap and the Canton Delta Districts, personally went to the island with the latter for $5,000 and gave it unconditionally to Mr. Lake for carrying on his noble work. In his general letter of introduction dated October 24, 1921, he said:
"Rev. Lake of Canton, China, has for more than ten years been engaged in the amelioration of conditions among the lepers in Kwangtung Province, especially in the Sz Yap and the Canton Delta Districts. He has now received the recognition and aid of the Missions to Lepers and of the American Mission to Lepers, and has formulated comprehensive plans for the segregation and care of all the lepers in that vast and populous section. ... I have purchased and donated the small island of his own choice in Kwangtung province called 'Tai-kam'..."

We landed at the North Bay of Tai-kam Island, where we saw that the first unit of six permanent buildings was about half finished; two splendid piers were already completed; and two strongly built sailing boats of the colony lying in the harbour. .. ..
there is nothing left to be desired for building up a sanitary, industrial, and self-supporting leper colony so far as the place is concerned. With proper talent and sufficient financial backing it can easily be made the Culion of China. But Tai-kam has its great handicap in that it is so far away from Canton and other cities and it is so difficult to get there on account of the activities of robbers and pirates that it seems as though it were inaccessible.

'The Tungkun Leper Asylum is under the control of the Rhenish Mission which, as the Roman Catholic Mission [running the leprosy asylum at Sheklung], is also getting the support from the Canton government to the amount of $500 a month. There were approximately three hundred lepers, both male and female, in that asylum. It is being run on a much smaller scale than Sheklung, and it is not so well developed as the other. The chaulmoogra oil treatment was also denied to the lepers for the same reason that Father Deswazieres gave. [i.e. "no money"]. In addition to this great disappointment we saw several perfectly normal boys and girls living together with their leprous parents in wards full of abominable air and terrible human beings. It did not seem to us to be right. We realize the difficulty in separating the children from their leprous parents, but in order to save young lives we have to be rigid in this matter. We earnestly hope that the authorities of the Tungkun Asylum will see this point and remedy the situation.'

Number of patients in hospital January 1, 1926: 107
Number of patients admitted during 1926: 3
Number of patients discharged: 6
Number of patients died: 3
Number of patients in hospital January 1, 1927: 101 (59 male, 42 female)
Total number of injections given: 6793 (4443 to men, 2359 to women)
Number of out-patients for injections: 10
Number of injections given to out-patients: 159
Number of out-patients after treatment: 39
Total number of out-patients' visits: 198
Number of baptisms during 1926: 17
Number of lepers in hospital already baptised: 87.