"This hospital is an extension of the C.M.S. General Hospital, which was founded by the late Dr. C. Horder in 1886. It is divided into two compounds - one for men and one for women - and situated on the western side of the General Hospital. The principal buildings in the Men's Compound comprise three large airy wards, a church, printing rooms, an operating theater, and a workshop. There are, besides, smaller buildings serving as kitchens, bathrooms, sick room, storerooms, lavatory, etc. The Women's Compound has two large wards and a church - all built parallel to one another.
At present, in the two compounds, there are 58 males and 42 females. Within the Men's Compound occupations of various kinds are carried on. In the workshop is to be seen happy and contented lepers making baskets of all shapes and sizes, twining ropes, plaiting straw slippers, sawing wood, making brooms, etc. The products are consumed locally. All finished articles are sterilized before leaving the compound and a non-leper is engaged as salesman. There is also a printing department where Romanized, Chinese and English can be printed. Nearly all the printed matter of the Missions is done here. Formerly as an instrument for Christian propaganda work, this department has lately suspended part of its service, and at present only three or four workers are engaged. Gardening and lace making are the chief occupations of the female lepers.
Lepers within the compounds, needless to say, are healthier than those without. The introduction of the latest forms of medical treatment is chiefly responsible for the improved state of health. Since the adoption of compulsory medical treatment, the death rate of lepers has markedly decreased. To many of the inmates the results so far obtained are greeted as the resurrection of hope."

"The Swatow Leper Asylum is located on the "Head-bowing Hill" about three miles apart from the city. It is surrounded by sea and filled with fresh air. The institution was founded in October, 1924, with an initial fund of $13,000 and an annual budget for $10,000, all appropriated by the Municipal Government of Swatow.
Injection of chaulmoogra esters, which is supplied by the Peking Medical College, is made on every Friday. The inmates of the asylum are chiefly recruited by the police who arrest lepers seen on the street. The lepers are confined separately according to their differences in the stage of the disease and in sex. There are 20 rooms in the asylum, each permitting four occupants. Excepting the advanced cases those who are physically strong are required to do the sweeping, washing, gardening, and other work. The clothes and utensils are washed in every other day so as to insure cleanliness. No leper is allowed to leave the asylum unless he is examined by the doctor to have been cured and given with a certificate to that effect.
Up to October, 1925, there were only 23 lepers in the colony, but since autumn of this year the number has increased to 56. So far as our record goes, there is an improvement of 60% with the light cases and 30% with the advanced cases as a result of our treatment."

"We discovered that there was a home for lepers kept up by the city, and last Wednesday Dr. Bradley and I together with two missionaries called on the mayor and asked permission to go twice a week and give injections. He seemed quite pleased, and so we will commence shortly. There are 23 men and 13 women. It is surrounded by a high wall and is rather like a prison than anything else, and it is a pitythat there is no land to cultivate. They get rice only and one copper a day for other food! They do absolutely nothing, so we will try and get them an occupation. It will cost too much to build a wall for vegetable gardens and without that they would run away.
I expect you will be interested in hearing how this treatment goes on, and I will write you later. I hope that the Mission to Lepers will provide the medicines. The place is five miles away in a nice site among the hills. The inmates come regularly for injections - hardly one ever misses. On the whole they are very illiterate, and do not get sufficiently nourishing food to make the best progress. However, they all maintain that they are greatly benefited.
Without any disrespect to the officials who have built and maintained this home, it does, by comparison with the Pakhoi Hospital, show a difference. One might compare the first to a cold moral goodness. It was good to have such an institution, but the second is one of Christ-like goodness, and the vital difference is that little word of Love."

"There are 57 leper men in the home. We could have 500, so many are begging to come. There are 12 women, mostly unmarried girls; about 12 more want to enter. Almost all are advanced cases, so the treatments are not satisfactory. The men and women are happy and contented in the homes. The spirit of love and helpfulness is very fine in both homes."

"Long before the establishment of our Leper Home in 1905 there were a great many of the poor lepers dwelling in small and unspeakable filthy huts near the South Gate of the city. The lepers received daily from the magistrate 7 or 14 small cash
Rev Fr Diehl, "The Leper Asylum of the Rhenish Mission at Tungkun, Kwangtung", The Leper Quarterly. 4 (1927): 11-15. [Leprosarium] [China]