TungkunT C Wu, Rev John Lake and Rev Zee Ding-chong visited the asylum, accompanied by the new director of the asylum, Rev Fr Diehl. Mr Wu gave the following account: '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.' Source: T C Wu (General Secretary of the Chinese Mission to Lepers), "A report of my trip to South China", The Leper Quarterly, 1 (1927): 13-28, at p. 21.[Leprosarium][China]
1927
Tungkun"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]